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Reagan-Bush '84, under the leadership of Ed Rollins, was organized on October 17, 1983. [9] Reagan delayed his campaign announcement as not running would make him a lame duck whereas running would make everything he did be viewed as part of his campaign. [10] He announced that he would seek reelection on January 29, 1984. [11]
Reagan carried every state except for Washington, D.C., and Mondale's home state of Minnesota; won 58.8 percent of the popular vote; and defeated Mondale by a popular vote margin of eighteen points. Reagan remains the only presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972 to win at least 55 percent of the popular vote and win by a margin ...
Reagan authorized the formation of his 1984 campaign committee, Reagan-Bush '84, on October 17, 1983. [1] [2] He made the formal announcement of his candidacy for reelection on January 29, 1984. [3] On August 23, he secured the nomination of the Republican Party at its convention in Dallas, Texas. [4] The convention nominated Bush as his ...
Reagan ran for reelection as president in 1984, running against Democrat Walter Mondale. Reagan was re-elected, receiving 58.8% of the popular vote to Mondale's 40.6%, and winning 49 of 50 states. [43] Reagan won a record 525 electoral votes (97.6 percent of the 538 votes in the Electoral College), the most by any candidate in American history ...
Reagan ran with incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, while Mondale's running mate was Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro of New York. On election day, Reagan won 51.22% of the vote in the state to Mondale's 48.43%, a margin of 2.79%. Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960.
Ronald Reagan announcing his reelection campaign from the Oval Office on January 29, 1984 Reagan campaigning in Fairfield, Connecticut near the end of the subsequent general election campaign. From February 20 to July 1, 1984, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1984 United States presidential election.
New York was won by Ronald Reagan with 53.84% of the popular vote over Walter Mondale with 45.83%, a victory margin of 8.01%. [1] This made New York about 10% more Democratic than the nation overall. This was the third election since the Civil War (the first two being 1952 and 1956), in which New York voted less Democratic than neighboring ...
The incumbent Ronald Reagan won re-election in 1984, carrying 49 U.S. states. Mondale's victory in the District of Columbia was the largest out of any location and was one of only two electoral jurisdictions to vote Democratic. Amid a Reagan landslide nationwide, the District weighed in 89.9% more Democratic than the national average, the ...