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The following is a list of female U.S. presidential and vice presidential nominees and invitees. Nominees are candidates nominated or otherwise selected by political parties for particular offices. Listed as nominees or nomination candidates are those women who achieved ballot access in at least one state (or, before the institution of ...
Under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution of the United States, the vice president of the United States is the ex officio president of the Senate but may only cast a vote in the Senate to break a tie. As of January 24, 2025, vice presidents have cast a total of 302 tie-breaking votes in the Senate. [1]
Former president Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee for President of the United States, considered several prominent Republicans and other individuals before selecting Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his candidate for Vice President of the United States on July 15, 2024, the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention. [1]
Cheney is the daughter of former Dick Cheney, who was vice president under George W. Bush. She represented Wyoming in Congress from 2017 to 2023 and was chair of the House Republican Conference ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s selection as the Democratic candidate for vice president has injected energy and excitement into the 2024 presidential campaign, the chair of Oklahoma’s Democratic ...
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday broke the record by casting the most tie-breaking votes in the Senate in U.S. history. She has now broken 32 ties, beating the previous ...
Bold entries are successful candidates; Italicized entries are runners-up who became vice president under the original system (1788-1800). This list includes eleven women, nine of whom received vice presidential votes: the first was Tonie Nathan who in 1972 received one vote from a faithless elector.
Walz was the first sitting governor selected as the Democratic vice presidential nominee since Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska in 1924 [3] and if elected, would have been the third vice president from Minnesota after Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale. [4] Walz is also the first sitting governor to appear on the Democratic ticket since Bill ...