WASHINGTON: Simply when People thought they have been out, Joe Biden and Donald Trump pulled them again in.
The sequel to the 2020 election is formally set because the president and his quick predecessor secured their events’ nominations. Biden and Trump have arrange a political film the nation has seen earlier than — even when the final model was in black and white.
The final presidential rematch got here in 1956, when Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower once more defeated Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic opponent he had 4 years prior.
Grover Cleveland, in the meantime, was the nation’s twenty second and twenty fourth president, successful elections in 1884 and 1892.
As sequels go, followers of politics and movie could hope the Biden-Trump rematch finally ends up just like the acclaimed “The Godfather II” moderately than the often-derided “The Godfather III.” However the Biden-Trump rematch is anticipated to take its place alongside historic analogues that date again to the nation’s founding.
Right here’s the way it stacks up in historical past:
Sixty-eight years in the past. After Eisenhower beat Stevenson in 1952 and gained all however 9 states, the incumbent president confronted Stevenson once more 4 years later and secured a fair bigger landslide.
There are different examples of presidential race rematches, however they occurred far earlier in U.S. historical past.
Republican President William McKinley topped Democrat William Jennings Bryan within the election of 1896 after which once more in 1900. In 1836, Democrat Martin Van Buren defeated William Henry Harrison of the Whig Get together, solely to have Harrison win a rematch between the 2 and take the presidency 4 years later.
John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson confronted off twice for the presidency. The primary time was in 1824, when Adams prevailed, and the second was in 1828, when Jackson turned president by beating the incumbent Adams.
Then there was John Adams, a Federalist who was the nation’s second president, and Thomas Jefferson, its third and a Democratic-Republican. Each vied for the presidency throughout the first-ever contested presidential election to succeed George Washington in 1796, with Adams successful and Jefferson elected vp. 4 years later, Jefferson ran in opposition to and beat the incumbent Adams.
To this point, only one.
Grover Cleveland is the lone president in U.S. historical past to serve two non-consecutive phrases. He efficiently pulled off what Trump is now trying — successful again the White Home from the opponent who took it from him.
A Democratic anti-corruption crusader and governor of New York, Cleveland narrowly gained the presidential election of 1884. 4 years later, he once more gained the favored vote, however was defeated within the electoral school by Republican Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland once more ran in opposition to Harrison in 1892, this time simply successful a second time period.
Different former presidents have tried and did not win again their former publish.
After serving two phrases till 1877, Ulysses S. Grant sought the Republican nomination once more throughout the 1880 election however misplaced after a conference struggle to James A. Garfield. A 3rd time period would have been allowed then as a result of the twenty second Modification, which restricted presidents to 2 phrases in workplace, wasn’t ratified till 1951.
Three former presidents tried unsuccessfully to reclaim the White Home with events completely different from these they have been a part of after they gained it — with Teddy Roosevelt getting closest.
Roosevelt, a Republican, turned president when William McKinley was assassinated in 1901 and was reelected in 1904 — however opted to not search one other full time period in 1908, stepping apart for his handpicked GOP successor, William H. Taft.
Roosevelt later turned disenchanted with Taft and challenged him for the Republican nomination in 1912. When that failed, Roosevelt ran for president on his personal Progressive ticket, which turned referred to as the Bull Moose Get together after the previous president joked that he felt “as sturdy as a bull moose.” Democrat Woodrow Wilson gained that November’s election, however Roosevelt got here in second, successful 88 electoral votes in comparison with simply 8 for Taft, the incumbent.
Millard Fillmore turned president after Zachary Taylor, who was the final president elected with the Whig Get together, died in 1850. Fillmore unsuccessfully sought the Whig presidential nomination in 1852. 4 years later, he ran for president with the Know-Nothing Get together however misplaced each state besides Maryland.
Democrat Martin Van Buren was president from 1837 to 1841 and misplaced his reelection bid to Whig Get together nominee William Henry Harrison. Eight years later, Van Buren tried a comeback with the Free Soil Get together however did not garner any electoral votes.
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