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John Edwards for President 2004; Campaign: 2004 United States presidential election (Democratic Party primaries) Candidate: John Edwards U.S. Senator from North Carolina (1999–2005) Affiliation: Democratic Party: EC formed: January 2, 2003: Announced: September 16, 2003: Suspended: March 2, 2004: Headquarters: Chapel Hill, North Carolina ...
Johnny Reid Edwards [1] (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who represented North Carolina in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the vice presidential nominee under US Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
Kerry selected North Carolina Senator John Edwards as his running mate on July 6, 2004. [2] The Kerry–Edwards ticket was ultimately defeated by the Bush–Cheney ticket in the general election, and Edwards returned to the Senate following the campaign but left politics less than two months later.
Defining moments of the 2004 Democratic National Convention included the featured keynote speech of Barack Obama, a Honolulu native and candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, Bill Clinton's opening night speech and the confirmation of the nomination of John Kerry as the candidate for president and of John Edwards as the candidate ...
As of late June, the charismatic Edwards was the first choice of Democratic voters, according to several polls; some pundits attributed this to high name recognition, due to his runner-up status in the primaries. On the morning of July 6, 2004, Kerry announced the selection of John Edwards as his running mate.
January 2 – U.S. Senator John Edwards from North Carolina announces formation of an exploratory committee for the Democratic nomination.; January 4 – U.S. Representative Dick Gephardt from Missouri, who was Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until late 2002 when he stepped down largely in anticipation for a bid for the presidency, announces his intention to run ...
As former President Trump faces a potential grand jury indictment, North Carolinians remember a similar case against former Sen. John Edwards.
The 2004 Democratic National Convention marked the formal end of the active primary election season, although all meaningful primary elections had finished months earlier. After the convention, John Kerry and John Edwards were defeated by the incumbent George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the general election.