With 2024 race beginning, these issues will dominate
For the Democrats, a quiet summer is expected — a far cry from the state of the party’s primary races in July 2019, when no fewer than 17 candidates were seeking the nomination and TV coverage had to split the debates into two separate events. This time, Biden’s path to the Democratic nomination seems clear.
On the Republican side, meanwhile, former president Trump maintains a sizable lead over the rest of the Republican field, putting us on course for a 2020 rematch.
There are plenty of precedents for this. In 1824, John Quincy Adams prevailed over Andrew Jackson, only to lose their rematch four years later. The same scenario repeated itself in 1836 and 1840, with Martin Van Buren and William Harrison splitting victories in their two face-offs.
Of all the rematches in American presidential election history (and there are many), there’s only one example of a president who lost reelection, ran again, and won. That was Grover Cleveland, who lost his reelection battle to Benjamin Harrison in 1888, only to return and defeat Harrison in 1892.
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