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Can an incumbent president be challenged by a same party member in an election run?
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∙ 12y ago
Yes, they can be challenged, but only for the nomination. A political party nominates only one candidate for president and all party members do their best to support the candidate of their party.
( A person can desert his party and run against his old party's candidate, as did Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. )
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∙ 13y agoSure- and this has happened several times in the past. The most notable recent example that I can remember was Gene McCarthy and later Robert Kennedy running against Lyndon Johnson in 1968. Johnson saw that the opposition was so strong that he dropped out sometime in March as I remember.
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∙ 13y agoSure- he can be- it's a free country. In fact it is has happened., in a way, not so long ago. In 1968, Eugene McCarthy and the threat of Bobby Kennedy caused Lyndon Johnson to announce early on , that he would not seek another term. Of course, Johnson had already served the rest of Kennedy's term before his first term. It is widely assumed that a president who wins an election has earned to right to try for a second term, so it would take an unusual situation or person to challenge an elected president who is seeking a second term, but it happened in 1856 when Buchanan got the nomination instead of the incumbent Franklin Pierce.
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