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Although Reagan won the 1980 election with 489 electoral votes and Trump only won 312 in 2024, Trump has an enormous advantage Reagan never did: Republicans will control both houses of Congress ...
Sure, the Trump vs. Reagan comparison is overdone. But what’s overlooked is how Reagan’s policies created the conditions for a populist power grab. Reagan came to power at a time when the ...
Ronald Reagan – Presbyterian [110] Reagan's father was Catholic, [111] but Reagan was raised in his mother's Disciples of Christ denomination and was baptized there on September 21, 1922. [112] Nancy and Ronald Reagan were married in the Disciples of Christ "Little Brown Church" in Studio City, California on March 4, 1952.
What would Reagan think of Trump? As Heath Mayo, conservative founder of Principles First, wrote on Aug. 5, “Reagan wouldn’t be caught within a 400-mile radius of a MAGA rally.
Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey (2010–2018), U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (2002–2008) [140] [141] (did not vote for Trump in general election) Jim Edgar , Governor of Illinois (1991–1999) ( endorsed Kamala Harris ) [ 142 ]
Reagan did not believe in raising income taxes. During his presidential tenure, the top federal income tax rates were lowered from 70% to 28%. [35] However, it has also been acknowledged that Reagan did raise taxes on eleven occasions during his presidency to both preserve his defense agenda and combat the growing national debt and budget ...
Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan is deeply researched and informative, but it sometimes stumbles when it tries to use the past to make sense of the present.
June: President Reagan tells the British Parliament that "the march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history" [140] and calls for a "crusade for freedom." [141] 1983. March: President Reagan in a speech delivered to the National Association of Evangelicals denounces the Soviet Union (USSR) as an "Evil ...