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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 10:03 PM Aug 2023

These guys were President once but not twice!

So why didn't they have their Vice Presidents declare them winner when they ran for re-election?

What suckers!

John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
William Howard Taft
Herbert Hoover
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush

And what about those Vice Presidents who should have declared themselves the winner of the Presidency but didn't?

John Breckinridge
Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
Walter Mondale
Al Gore

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These guys were President once but not twice! (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2023 OP
Like Military Personnel who get wounded in combat BOSSHOG Aug 2023 #1
Grover Cleveland was president twice. former9thward Aug 2023 #2
Ooops. Yes. But he did lose reelection struggle4progress Aug 2023 #3
Well ITAL Aug 2023 #4

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
1. Like Military Personnel who get wounded in combat
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 10:15 PM
Aug 2023

To trump they are all suckers. And trump loves stupid people, because stupid people would vote for him again.

ITAL

(1,379 posts)
4. Well
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 11:17 PM
Aug 2023

Most of those had no alternate electors, hence the VP had nothing to choose between. In 1960 Hawaii was in dispute, but Nixon set aside the Republican electors because it wouldn't have made a difference.

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