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This is also the first time since 1916 that Minnesota voted for the candidate who did not eventually win. [118] Remarkably, Nixon won the election despite winning only two of the six states (Arizona and South Carolina) won by Republican Barry Goldwater four years earlier. He remains the only presidential candidate to win in spite of defending ...
The 1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, the 36th vice president of the United States, began when Nixon, the Republican nominee of 1960, formally announced his candidacy, following a year's preparation and five years' political reorganization after defeats in the 1960 presidential election and the 1962 California gubernatorial election.
The 1968 United States elections were held on November 5, and elected members of the 91st United States Congress.The election took place during the Vietnam War, in the same year as the Tet Offensive, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and the protests of 1968.
From February 3 to July 13, 1968, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1968 United States presidential election.Former vice president Richard Nixon was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1968 Republican National Convention held from August 5 to August 8, 1968, in Miami Beach, Florida.
A viral exchange on X blames President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to withdraw from the race for Nixon’s election. No, Richard Nixon’s 1968 Election Win Wasn’t ‘A Landslide’ Skip to ...
New York was won by incumbent Democratic vice president Hubert Humphrey, defeating Republican former vice president Richard Nixon by a margin of 5.46 percentage points and more than 370,000 votes. Maine Senator Edmund Muskie was Humphrey's vice-presidential running mate, while Nixon’s running mate was Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew.
The election permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition, which had been dominant in presidential politics since 1932. This was the first election since 1916 in which Minnesota backed the losing candidate in a presidential election. Nixon became the first Republican to win a presidential election without winning Minnesota.
Nixon won twelve of the state's electoral votes, while one faithless elector that had been pledged to Nixon voted instead for Wallace. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Wayne County and Lenoir County did not vote for the Republican presidential candidate. [13]