Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4,1980. Republican nominee,former Governor of California Ronald Reagan,defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. This was the second consecutive election in which an incumbent president was defeated,although Gerald Ford assumed the presidency after President Richard Nixon resigned and was not elected,as well as the first election since 1888 that saw the defeat of an incumbent Democratic president.
Steven Paul Westly is an American venture capitalist,entrepreneur,educator,and politician. He was the State Controller of California from 2003 to 2007 and was one of the top candidates in the Democratic primary for Governor of California in the 2006 election. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by California State Treasurer Phil Angelides by 4%,who later lost to Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the November 2006 elections.
Kenneth Marc Duberstein was an American lobbyist who served as U.S. president Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff from 1988 to 1989.
James Walter Gilchrist Jr. is an American political activist and the co-founder and president of The Minuteman Project,an activist group whose aim is to prevent illegal immigration across the southern border of the United States.
Morton C. Blackwell is an American conservative activist. He is the founder and president of the Leadership Institute,a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational foundation that teaches political technology to conservative activists. He currently serves as Virginia's national committeeman on the Republican National Committee.
Andrew Lindsay Lewis Jr.,generally known as Drew Lewis,was an American businessman and politician from the state of Pennsylvania. He was United States Secretary of Transportation in the first portion of the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan,and is best known for presiding over the firing of the striking U.S. air traffic controllers in 1981.
The California Republican Party (CAGOP) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in the U.S. state of California. The party is based in Sacramento and is led by chair Jessica Millan Patterson,the first Latina to lead the party.
Edward Rollins is an American political consultant and advisor who has worked on several high-profile Republican political campaigns in the United States. In 1983 and 1984,Rollins was national campaign director for the successful Reagan-Bush 1984 campaign. He is currently Chief Political Strategist at the pro-Ron DeSantis PAC Ready for Ron.
United States President Barack Obama,a member of the Democratic Party,was endorsed or supported by some members of the Republican Party and by some political figures holding conservative views in the 2008 election. Although the vast majority of Obama's support came from liberal constituencies,some conservatives identified in him shared priorities or other positive attributes. As in any election,voters can and sometimes do cross party lines to vote for the other party's nominee. Republican and conservative Obama supporters were often referred to as "Obama Republicans","Obamacans" or "Obamacons".
William Flynn Martin is an American energy economist,educator,and international diplomat. Martin served as Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan for National Security Affairs,Executive Secretary of the United States National Security Council,and United States Deputy Secretary of Energy during the Ronald Reagan Administration. He was President of the Council of the University for Peace,appointed to the Council by Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. In 1992,he was Executive Director of the Republican Platform committee under George H. W. Bush. William Martin served for ten years as Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
The 2012 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 6,2012,along with other elections to the United States Senate the United States House of Representatives in additional states. Incumbent Republican U.S. senator Kay Bailey Hutchison decided to retire instead of running for reelection to a fourth full term. This was the first open election for this seat since 1957.
Mari Maseng Will is a Republican adviser who has worked for President Ronald Reagan,Senator Robert Dole and Governor Rick Perry. She was also an adviser to Scott Walker's presidential campaign and Ted Cruz’s and Tim Scott’s presidential campaigns.
Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place within all 50 U.S. states,the District of Columbia,and five U.S. territories between February 1 and June 7,2016. These elections selected the 2,472 delegates that were sent to the Republican National Convention. Businessman and reality television personality Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for president of the United States.
Sidney Lewis Jones is an American economist and former official in the United States federal government. Educated at Utah State University and Stanford University,he initially taught in universities until he was recruited to join the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers. From there he held a number of positions in and out of government,including senior roles in the Departments of Commerce and the Treasury. A Republican,he has held strong views during his career about controlling inflation and federal government spending but was nonetheless well regarded as an economist across the political spectrum.
This is a list of notable political endorsements for declared candidates for the Republican primaries for the 2016 United States presidential election. Endorsements are part of the "invisible primary" process,which occurs not only long before the general election,but also largely occurs before even the caucuses and primaries have begun.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Rick Perry, the 47th Governor of Texas,was officially launched on June 4,2015. This campaign constituted Perry's second consecutive bid for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Perry announced on September 11,2015,that he had suspended his campaign.
The 2016 Libertarian Party presidential primaries and caucuses allowed electors to indicate non-binding preferences for the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. These differed from the Republican or Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses in that they did not appoint delegates to represent a candidate at the party's convention to select the party's nominee for the United States presidential election. The party's nominee for the 2016 presidential election was chosen directly by registered delegates at the 2016 Libertarian National Convention,which ran from May 26 to 30,2016. The delegates nominated former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson for president and former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld for vice president.
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