1984 US ELECTIONS - WALTER MONDALE AND THE PARTY OF DOOM

 In about 33 hours the 2024 Presidential polls will open on the East Coast of the United States (13 hours behind us). Then another three hours later the polls will open on the West Coast. 

In the 1984 race (40 years ago) incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat challenger Walter Mondale the former Vice-President under Jimmy Carter. I was in the US at that time.

Reagan won a landslide victory defeating Mondale in 49 out of 50 States. Mondale also carried the exactly 10 square mile federal territory of Washington DC. Here is an electoral map of that 1984 polls.

 

1984 United States elections - Wikipedia

Republican incumbent President Ronald Reagan won re-election, defeating Democratic former Vice President Walter Mondale. Reagan carried every state except for Washington, D.C., and Mondale's home state of Minnesota; won 58.8 percent of the popular vote; and defeated Mondale by a popular vote margin of eighteen points.

Reagan (Republican) remains the only presidential candidate since Richard Nixon (Republican) in 1972 to win at least 55 percent of the popular vote and win by a margin greater than 10 points.

Mondale selected New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, making Ferraro the first woman to appear on a major party presidential ticket.

The 1984 United States elections were held on November 6.

My Comments : The US presidential elections are held every four years on the first Tuesday in November (which is tomorrow). So there is no guessing game when the elections will be held. 

Once elected the American president cannot be removed by any means of No Confidence or losing popularity. The president can only be removed at the conclusion of the four year term in office, or by criminal impeachment (if he committed a crime while in office) or if he resigns, or he dies in office.  

Why Donald Trump will be assassinated if he is elected again.

Since 1779, no American president has been successfully removed from office through impeachment. Richard Nixon resigned from office in 1973. In the past 245 years there have been a total of FOUR attempted impeachments against presidents Andrew Johnson in 1868, (Bill) Clinton in 1998 and TWICE against Donald Trump, in 2019 and 2020. None were successful.

In the past 245 years, 50% of the impeachment proceedings against a sitting US president have been against Donald Trump (1919 and 2020).  There are some bad people who really hate him.

In his re-election campaign in 2024, President Trump has already survived TWO assassination attempts. He was wounded by rifle fire in the first attempt and shots were fired in the second attempt. 

If Trump wins the presidential elections tomorrow there will be more assassination attempts against him.  

There was an assassination attempt against Republican president Ronald Reagan in 1982. President Reagan survived being shot in the chest. Reagan was focussed on ending the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union. Largely because of his efforts the Berlin Wall collapsed in November 1989, just ten months after Reagan's second term ended in January 1989. The end of the Cold War meant huge cuts in military spending and losses for the weapons manufacturers.

In 1973 Republican President Nixon was forced to resign because of the Watergate Scandal. Nixon was strongly committed to ending the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War did end two years later in 1975. Again peace meant huge cuts in military spending and losses for weapons manufacturers.

Donald Trump is strongly anti-war. In his first term as president (2016-2020) the US did not embark on any new wars. Trump ended the ISIS troubles in the Middle East and negotiated peace directly with the Taliban. 

Trump hails Afghanistan deal, plans to meet Taliban leaders soon
By Steve Holland
March 1, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would be personally meeting leaders of the Taliban in the near future.   He spoke hours after U.S. and Taliban representatives signed a deal toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers and move closer to ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan.

Donald Trump also became the first American President to meet a North Korean leader (Kim Jong Un) THREE TIMES and also became the first American president to set foot into North Korea (Panmunjom). 

Again peace in Afghanistan and the thaw with North Korea meant huge cuts in military spending and losses for weapons manufacturers. 

Trump has now promised to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.

If Trump wins they will shoot him again. Or blow him up.

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