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In the 1980 presidential election, Republican former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide, winning 489 electoral votes and 44 states.
The NAACP announced Monday the group will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina, the first time the prominent civil rights organization ...
Nov. 4: Reagan won 51% of the vote, or 43.9 million, to 41%, or 35.5 million, for Carter. In the electoral college, it was a landslide: 489 to 49. My job was done, or so I thought. Then I got a call ...
Beneath his cowboy hat, he smuggled two ideas that were anathema to movement conservatives, neoliberalism and neoconservativism, into the heart of Republican ...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney lavished praise on Vice President Kamala Harris Sunday and called her nomination address “a speech that Ronald Reagan could have given.” Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and ...
‘Reagan’ Review: Dennis Quaid Headlines an Overly Reverential Tribute to a Controversial Politician. Jon Voight, Mena Suvari and Penelope Ann Miller also star in the biopic directed by Sean ...
The NAACP announced Monday the group will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina, the first time the prominent civil rights ...
With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, ... The consensus is that Reagan’s most memorable speech was the one delivered on June 12 1987 at the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin.
Biden has attended all but one Democratic convention over the past half-century. He saw floor fights and deep party divisions in 1980. He witnessed soaring oratory from an up-and-comer named ...
During his 1981 speech to the NAACP convention in Denver, Reagan decried white supremacist hate groups and vowed his administration would investigate and prosecute “those who, by violence or ...