Is what Trump said true?

[John1956PA]

8. He is a lair. But it was bitter if one looks only at races not involving a siting president or VP.

In the past 50 years, there have been three democratic losses in contests in which the Democratic candidate was neither the sitting president (as President Carter was in 1980) nor was up against a sitting Republican president (McGovern vs. Nixon in 1972 and Mondale vs. Reagan in 1984) nor up against a sitting Vice President (Dukakis vs, H. W. Bush in 1988). Such three losses were Humphrey vs. Nixon (1968), Gore vs. G. W. Bush (2000) and Hillary Clinton vs. Trump 2016. Of those three Democratic losses, Hillary's was the largest electoral vote defeat despite the fact that she (like Gore) won the popular vote.

Of course, narrowing the list of Democratic losses for the purpose of making the claim fit is absurd, just like Trump himself.