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Trump has officially run as a candidate for president four times, in 2000, 2016, 2020, and 2024; he also unofficially campaigned in 2012 and mulled a run in 2004. [1] He won the 2016 general election through the Electoral College while losing the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 2.8 million votes, the largest margin ever to ...
Obama served his second term as president, while Biden also served his second term as vice president and initially retired from politics but was later elected president in 2020, defeating Obama's successor, then-incumbent Donald Trump. This is the most recent election in which two major party nominees would go on to become president.
In a 2014 interview, Trump questioned whether Obama had produced his long-form birth certificate. [131] When asked in December 2015 if he still questioned Obama's legitimacy, Trump said that "I don't talk about that anymore." [135] On September 14, 2016, Trump declined to acknowledge whether he believed Obama was born in the United States. [136]
RELATED: See Trump elected president As it turns out, though, the lines have been proven fake . According to fact-checking site Snopes, they found no record of Trump saying this in 1998 or any ...
In 2011, when he was reportedly considering a presidential run, Trump became the leading proponent of the racist "birther" conspiracy theory, alleging that Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, was not born in the U.S. [31] In April, he claimed credit for pressuring the White House to publish the "long-form" birth certificate, which he ...
In October 2010, Biden said Obama had asked him to remain as his running mate for the 2012 presidential election, [56] but with Obama's popularity on the decline, White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley conducted some secret polling and focus group research in late 2011 on the idea of replacing Biden on the ticket with Hillary Clinton. [57]
October 12— Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, and Rick Santorum, all address the New Hampshire House of Representatives [80] October 14–16 – Socialist Party USA convention in Los Angeles, CA selects Stewart Alexander as their presidential candidate and Alejandro Mendoza as their vice-presidential candidate [ 81 ]
In 1967, the same year that The Dirty Dozen was released, a parody film titled The Pogi Dozen (lit. ' The Handsome Dozen ') was released in the Philippines, starring the comedian Chiquito. Three years after The Dirty Dozen was released, Too Late the Hero, a film also directed by Aldrich, was described as a "kind of sequel to The Dirty Dozen". [36]