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Presidential Nominees More Than Twice In American History

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The history of Presidential Elections shows a total of 13 individuals who have been nominated more than twice for the White House.

Seven of these individuals ended up in the Presidency, and six others never made it to the White House.

This includes four nominees of third or minor parties who were on the ballot more than twice in a Presidential election.

The all time “champion” is Franklin D. Roosevelt, nominated and winning four times–1932, 1936, 1940, 1944–before the 22nd Amendment, ratified by 1951, prevented any future candidate to have more than two terms.

Thomas Jefferson was nominated for President in 1796, when he lost to John Adams but became his combative Vice President, and 1800 and 1804, when he twice won the Presidency.

Andrew Jackson was nominated for President in 1824, when he won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College to John Quincy Adams. Then, he won the Presidency in the next two elections, 1828 and 1832.

Martin Van Buren was nominated for and won the Presidency in 1836, but then lost the Election of 1840, and later ran as the third party Free Soil nominee in 1848.

Grover Cleveland won the Presidency in 1884, but although winning the popular vote in 1888, lost the Electoral College to Benjamin Harrison, but then came back and defeated Harrison in a rematch in 1892, making him the first of two Presidents to have nonconsecutive terms of office.

Richard Nixon lost the Presidential Election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy, but came back and won the Presidency in both 1968 and 1972.

Donald Trump won the Electoral College in 2016, despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, and then was defeated by Joe Biden in 2020. In 2024, although not winning a majority of the popular vote, he finally accomplished winning the popular vote edge over Kamala Harris, and is now serving his second nonconsecutive term, sharing that distinction with Grover Cleveland

Two major party nominees were nominated three times, but lost all those elections—Henry Clay in 1824, 1832, and 1844—and William Jennings Bryan in 1896, 1900, and 1908.

Two Socialist nominees were nominated and ran five and six times—Eugene Debs in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920—and Norman Thomas in
1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, and 1948.

Ralph Nader ran as either the Green Party candidate, or as an Independent, in four consecutive elections—1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008, with his impact being significant in the Presidential Election of 2000, in “throwing” the election in Florida to George W. Bush over Al Gore.

Jill Stein ran as the Green Party nominee three times, in 2012, 2016 and 2024.

Of the seven Presidents who were nominees more than twice, five of these Presidents were elected twice (Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, Nixon, and Trump) with Van Buren only winning once, and FDR being the lone exception of four times being elected, which now can never happen again in the future.

$40 Trillion National Debt A Crisis For America, And Mostly Occurring Under Republican Presidents!

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America is faced with a crisis, as the national debt just passed $40 Trillion, and no end in sight, as Donald Trump adds massively to the national debt with his extremely large tax cuts, and the costs of the Iran War.

This presents a crisis for the funding of Social Security and Medicare, which will be unable, as things stand now, to pay out to recipients the entire amount they are due on a monthly basis by the mid 2030s, and on health care costs.

The national debt reached $1 Trillion under Ronald Reagan by his second year in office, 1982.

And when one looks at all Presidents since then, it is clear that the national debt has magnified primarily under Republican Presidents since Reagan, who tripled the national debt to $3 Trillion, as well as George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.

George W. Bush started with a $5.7 Trillion national debt, and left eight years later, with $10.6 Trillion, so a doubling of the national debt.

Donald Trump started with about $20 Trillion national debt, and left after four years with $28 Trillion national debt. And in his second term, the national debt has grown from $36 Trillion up to, presently, $40 Trillion national debt.

So $20 Trillion, half the total national debt at present, but with about $3 Trillion being added annually by estimate for the next two and a half years of Trump, are due to Republican policies, including more massive tax cuts for the wealthy under Bush and Trump, and involvement in foreign wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran.

This is not excusing Democratic Presidents since Reagan, but the worst economic downturn, the Great Recession, since the Great Depression, explains Barack Obama adding $9.3 Trillion to the national debt in two terms; and Joe Biden, with the COVID 19 Pandemic, adding $8.5 Trillion to the national debt in his one term of office.

Bill Clinton added only $1.5 Trillion to the national debt in his two terms, and actually had balanced budgets in his second term, in league with a Republican Congress, while Republican George H. W. Bush in his one term added $1.3 Trillion to the national debt.

By comparison, Democrat Jimmy Carter in his one term only added $300 Billion to the National Debt.

Donald Trump Creating Crises With Allies, Undermining US National Security

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President Donald Trump’s growing unstable behavior is creating crises with America’s allies, undermining US National Security in massive ways.

The relationship with South Korea, which the US has defended ever since the Korean War, is in crisis as Trump is now calling for cutback in joint security exercises that have protected that nation from the nuclear power next day, North Korea.

The relationship with the Gulf States in the Middle East that are allies against Iran is also being threatened, most recently the threat to attack Oman, but also the growing concern of Saudi Arabia and other nations in the area to the unstable behavior of the American President.

The relationship with Canada is at its lowest point in history, with many Canadians furious at the US attitude toward them that has developed under Donald Trump.

The NATO allies in Europe are alarmed over US belligerence and hostility toward their decision to avoid involvement in the failed Iran War. And the growing threat on oil exploration in Greenland, which is opposed by that nation and its supporter, Denmark, is worrying many about the possibility of warfare between NATO and the United States.

Other nations in Asia, such as Japan, the Philippines, along with Australia and New Zealand, are working to form their own alliances of defense, with the growing lack of trust in American support.

Latin American nations are seeing Trump revive the imperialist past behavior in the hemisphere, including threats to take over the Panama Canal.

The entire international order is being upended in a dangerous manner, with Donald Trump cozying up to authoritarian leaders, including North Korea and its threat to South Korea; China and the threat to Taiwan and other Asian allies; and Russia, in its fifth year of war with Ukraine, a danger to NATO.

AI Data Centers, And Alabama Gubernatorial Race Between Doug Jones And Tommy Tuberville

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The state of Alabama will have a Gubernatorial race in November between Senator Tommy Tuberville and former Senator Doug Jones.

Tuberville was a nationally renowned football coach at four universities before running for the Senate in 2020, and defeating Doug Jones.

Jones was a Senator from 2018-2021, after winning a special election after Jeff Sessions became Attorney General for Donald Trump in his first term in 2017. Earlier, he served as US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama under President Bill Clinton, and gained wide notice for the successful prosecution of two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 Birmingham Church bombing that killed four African American girls, as well as the indictment of the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph, who conducted his terrorist attack in Atlanta in 1996 during that year’s Summer Olympics.

Jones lost his Senate seat in a massive defeat to Tuberville, in a state heavily Republican for decades. But he is back again, trying to win the Governorship, as Tuberville gave up the chance to run for reelection to the Senate, and instead work to become the state’s governor.

Tuberville has gained an horrendous reputation for outrageous statements and actions in his one term in the Senate, and displays the worst elements imaginable in any Senator, making him close to the worst member of the Republican Party in the upper chamber, but he has the full support of Donald Trump.

Jones, who came across as quite decent in his three years in the Senate, and with his impressive earlier public career, is making the attempt to help the Democratic Party to regain the executive branch in Alabama.

He is making a key issue of the growing AI Data Centers, wanting a moratorium on their development as research is being conducted on the problems and dangers of AI Data Centers, which are mostly ending up in rural areas nationally, and affecting the power, water, and air of the areas around them.

Meanwhile, Tuberville has demonstrated no desire to promote regulation or controls of AI Data Centers, so this is becoming a major difference in the race, with the hope that Jones can exploit the issue and win the Governorship.

It would be a step forward if Doug Jones, a decent and principled man, were able to defeat the reckless Tommy Tuberville, and retire him from public life.

Donald Trump Makes Clear He Has No Concern For Anyone But Himself!

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Donald Trump makes clear he has no concern for anyone but himself in a constant, every day manner.

Examples:

Trump has made clear he is not concerned about the harm being done to all Americans, due to his Iran War disaster; the massive inflation of food and gas prices; and the threat of ICE to not only immigrants, but also to actual US Citizens.

Trump has shown he does not care about the horrendous conditions for sailors and marines on board the USS Lincoln Aircraft Carrier, which has been on a mission to support the Iran War effort for over eight months now, leading to suicide attempts and other mental health issues for many on board.

Trump has also shown he does not care about his own cabinet members and other Trump loyalists, as well as journalists, who were not informed that he was putting them in harm’s way on Air Force One, by his using a different plane to fly home from the NATO summit in Turkey in July. Among those he put in danger without concern were Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, while Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth went on Trump’s plane. This incident is shocking in so many ways.

Congress Is On Way To Most Turnover In Any Cycle In American History, For The Upcoming 120th Congress (2027-2029)

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The 119th Congress (2025-2027) is setting a record for turnover, leading to the most massive number of members who will no longer be members in the 120th Congress (2027-2029).

Based on the latest information, but certain to be added to over the next few months, the statistics as of now show the following:

At least, 83 Incumbents will NOT be returning:

70 members of the House of Representatives, including 30 Democrats and 40 Republicans

13 US Senators, including 9 Republicans and 4 Democrats

Retirements, Resignations, Deaths, Seeking Other Offices, and Reelection Primary Losses are the factors that are causing massive turnover, and with more to come after more primaries and Election Day results.

Seven sitting Democrats and three Republicans in the House have lost primaries, and two Republican Senators also lost their primaries, John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy.

Also, 27 House members have given up their seats to run for another office, with 13 losing their bids for another office. Additionally, Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is not running for reelection, but is the Republican nominee for Governor.

Five House members have died during this Congress, as well as Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

Additionally, there have been seven resignations, mostly due to ethics related charges, but also appointment or election to other offices, as well as the resignation of Marjorie Taylor Greene in opposition to Donald Trump on the Epstein Scandals matter and other breaks with Trump.

It is good that the next Congress will be, assuredly, much younger, with the move against endless service of long term members being a positive development.

One more major moment of challenge of age against youth will be the September 1 Massachusetts primary for the Senate, where Senator Ed Markey, age 80, with 37 years in the House of Representatives and 13 plus years in the US Senate, faces the challenge of Congressman Seth Moulton, who is 47 years old and has served 12 years in the lower chamber.

Markey is a strong progressive with an outstanding record, but it seems to most observers that it is time for a younger generation to take over.

Amazingly, Markey held off former Congressman Joseph Kennedy III six years ago, despite the Kennedy name, and it will be a close watched primary coming up two weeks from now.

Donald Trump’s Massive Destruction Of LBJ’s “Great Society”!

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America is witnessing under Donald Trump in his second term Presidency a goal that the extreme right wing MAGA Movement and “Project 2025” has been working toward for decades—the massive destruction of all of the good work of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his “Great Society” in the mid 1960s.

All of the major actions of the Johnson Presidency in domestic affairs, and also of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, is being reversed in a heartless, callous, cruel manner by both Donald Trump and the extreme right wing majority of the John Roberts Supreme Court.

Among these actions of massive destruction have been the following:

Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Medicare and Medicaid
Federal Aid to Education
Immigration and Nationality Act 1965
Environmental and Consumer Legislation
Housing and Labor Reforms
Eliminating Government Funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS
War On Poverty Programs, including Job Corps, Project Head Start, and Food Stamps (SNAP)
National Endowment For The Arts and National Endowment For The Humanities

Trump has attacked educational programs and cultural institutions, including the Kennedy Center, the National Museum of American History, all other museums connected with the Smithsonian Institution, and News Media.

Trump has also worked to destroy domestic initiatives of presidents after LBJ, including in particular:

Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Joe Biden

Once Donald Trump is out of office, and assuming that Democrats can retake the White House and Capitol Hill, it will take a massive effort to reverse the horrendous damage, and it will be more than a one or two year effort to bring back progress domestically.

Minnesota Midterm Elections Favor Democrats

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In the state of Minnesota, in the upcoming Midterm Elections of 2026, Senator Amy Klobuchar is running for Governor to succeed fellow Democrat Tim Walz, and should have an easy time, with her likely Republican opponent to be selected on Primary Day being MY PILLOW guy Mike Lindell, endorsed by Donald Trump, and who is a conspiracy theorist, and still contends that Donald Trump won the Presidential Election of 2020 over Joe Biden.

Lindell has been sued and has lost lawsuits which required him to pay massive financial damages, and he comes across as a lunatic in many people’s views, so Klobuchar, who has had a distinguished 20 year career in the US Senate, and contended for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2020, should have an easy ride.

Senator Tina Smith is retiring after serving 8 years in the upper chamber, and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who is Native American, and has a progressive image, is endorsed by many Senate Democrats, but has an opponent in centrist moderate Congresswoman Angie Craig, an open lesbian, who has other significant members of Congress backing her, and with her having an advantage in fundraising.

At this point, it is hard to figure out which of these two women will win the nomination, but whoever wins, she will have a clear advantage as there is no outstanding Republican nominee that is shown to be ahead in polls, in a state which strongly leans Democratic.

However, the likely nominee is Royce White, with a former limited career as a basketball player, mostly in Canada, and nominee for the Senate against Amy Klobuchar in 2024.

His opponent in the Republican Senate primary is Michele Tafoya as a journalist and sports broadcaster for ABC, NBC, CBS and ESPN, covering the National Football League, the Olympics, and professional basketball.

Shocking, Sudden Passing Of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham!

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The shocking, sudden passing of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham at the age of 71 is a reminder that all of us are living in an uncertain circumstance, never knowing what our lifespan is.

An extremely controversial member of the US Senate for 24 years, and before that for 8 years in the US House of Representatives, Graham engendered both scorn and admiration for his engagement in both domestic and foreign policy controversies under five Presidents.

Graham was a close associate of Arizona Senator John McCain and a major critic of Donald Trump, telling America the harsh truth about Trump during the Presidential Election campaign of 2016.

But then, Graham “sold his soul” to Trump, and became what was regarded by many as being Trump’s “lapdog”.

Graham first became controversial when he was one of the leaders pursuing the impeachment of President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the late 1990s.

But Graham also promoted immigration reform until Donald Trump came along and became the worst possible nativist bigot.

So Graham leaves a very mixed and controversial record, as a supporter of Ukraine against Russia, but also a massive supporter of Israel, even during the US-Gaza War that began after the October 7, 2023 Massacre.

Graham also was a major supporter of the present Iran War, which has led to great turmoil in both domestic and international affairs.

Whatever one thought of Graham’s views and policies, everyone could agree that he was an engaging, warm personality, but he faced great criticism over bowing down to Donald Trump, which would have angered his close friend, Senator McCain, who had been constantly attacked by Donald Trump.

Trump’s Phony Attack On “Communism”, When He Consorts With Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, And Kim Jong Un!

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Donald Trump is now promoting a new tactic, attacking “Communism”, which to him is being critical of progressives, liberals, and “democratic socialists”, who have won some Congressional seats for the upcoming 120th Congress (2027-2029).

Trump, meanwhile, consorts with “true” Communists, such as Vladimir Putin of Russia, Xi Jinping of China, and Kim Jong Un of North Korea, idealizing their totalitarian bent, and working to model himself after their strategy and tactics.

Trump is preparing to use the old, worn out tactic of promoting a “Red Scare”, as was conducted by Woodrow Wilson Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer from 1919-1921 after World War I, and by Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, and a whole slew of Republicans and Southern Democrats in Congress from 1950-1954, including Richard Nixon.

These attacks on the Left were designed to scare people into promoting violations of the Bill of Rights, and to promote white supremacist Christianity, by utilizing ignorance and fear of “Communism”, to promote a right wing abuse and violation of the Bill of Rights.

So Trump is using the tactics that his close associate Roy Cohn utilized first with Joseph McCarthy, and now, three quarters of a century later, and nearly fifty years after Roy Cohn’s death, again his ghost is being revived.