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The economy worsened during Carter and Mondale's time in office, and they lost the 1980 presidential election to Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. In 1984, Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination and campaigned for a nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment, an increase in taxes, and a reduction of U.S. public debt.
Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan and his running mate, incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush, were reelected to a second term in a landslide. They defeated the Democratic ticket of former Vice President Walter Mondale and Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro. Reagan and Bush faced only token opposition in their bid for re-nomination.
Ronald Reagan and running mate George H. W. Bush defeated the Carter-Mondale ticket by almost 10 percentage points in the popular vote. The electoral college vote was a landslide, with 489 votes (representing 44 states) for Reagan and 49 for Carter (representing six states and Washington, D.C.).
Reagan, who had served as Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, narrowly lost the 1976 Republican presidential primaries to incumbent president Gerald Ford. With the defeat of Ford by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election , Reagan immediately became the front-runner for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. [ 11 ]
For decades, rumors and accusations have been aimed at Ronald Reagan and his political operatives regarding the fates of the hostages and the failure of the Carter administration to secure their ...
Mondale lost the general election, held on November 6, 1984, to incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan in a landslide. [6] Had Mondale been elected, he would have been the first U.S. president from Minnesota and the first non-incumbent vice president since Richard Nixon to take office as president.
John Anderson, a former Republican congressman who challenged the party's conservative drift by taking on its chief symbol in Ronald Reagan, died on Sunday.
Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era.