LEBANON, N.H. (WCAX) – With the first-in-the-nation primary just around the corner, Donald Trump is attempting to do something that hasn’t been done by a former president in 130 years. According to Pew Research, Trump would be the first person since Grover Cleveland to lose a presidential election then be re-elected to a nonconsecutive term. That happened in 1892. Of course, Trump would have to win the republican party nomination first. Experts say that would also be highly unusual.
“Usually when somebody loses and election, the party doesn’t want them back. Democrats weren’t clamoring for Al Gore or John Kerry. Republicans weren’t clamoring for Mitt Romney to be their candidate again after they lost.” said John Lappie of Plymouth State University
Plymouth state politics professor John Lappie says if Trump does pull it off, it’s partially because he was able to convince so many republican voters that he didn’t actually lose the 2020 election. A claim that has been shot down by the courts dozens of times.