The 1984 United States presidential election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan won a landslide re-election victory, carrying 49 of the 50 states. At the age of 73, Reagan was the oldest person ever elected president.
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The 1984 United States presidential election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan won a landslide re-election victory, carrying 49 of the 50 states. Mondale won only his home state of Minnesota with a 0. 18% margin, and the District of Columbia. At the age of 73, Reagan was, at that point, the oldest person ever elected president, until he was surpassed by president elect Joe Biden in the 2020 presidentialelection. For the only time in U.S. history, the vice presidential roll call was taken concurrently with the presidential rollcall. This was the last time in the 20th century that the vice president candidate of either major party was nominated by roll call vote. Only three Democratic candidates won any state primaries: Mondale,. Hart, and Jackson. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings’s wit and experience, as well as his call for a budget freeze, won him some positive attention, but his relatively conservative record alienated liberal Democrats, and he was never really noticed in a field dominated by John Glenn, and Gary Hart. California astronaut Alan Cranston hoped to galvanize supporters of the nuclear freeze movement. He got 3.5 million votes during the primaries, behind Mondale and Hart, where he got 5 million votes. He was the second African-American candidate to mount a campaign for the presidency, and was the first African-Americans to be a serious contender to be president.
He won the primaries in Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and split the vote in Louisiana and Mississippi, where it was split between him and Jackson, and none of the contests won any contests for the second-African-American presidential candidate. He later became the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a position he held until his death in 1998. He died in a car crash in Los Angeles, California, in 1999. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and their three children, all of whom are active members of the Republican Party. His son, Ronald Reagan Jr., was elected to a second term as governor of California in 2002. He served as president of California from 1987 to 1993. He also served as vice president from 1989 to 1993, when he was re-nominated for a third term as president by Vice President George H. W. Bush. Reagan is the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to be re-elected while winning absolute popular vote majorities in both of his presidential campaigns. His popular vote margin of victory—nearly 16. 9 million votes —was exceeded only by Richard Nixon in his 1972 victory over George McGovern. In terms of electoral votes, this was theSecond-most lopsided presidential election in modern U. S. history; Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1936 victory over Alf Landon, in which he won 98. 5 percent or 523 of the then-total 531 electoral votes,. ranks first. Reagan was renominated by a vote of 2,233 delegates.
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