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The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, is defeated by his challenger Joe Biden. Such a scenario is extremely rare in the history of the United States of about 230 years.
Rare vote against: Donald Trump has to resign at the end of his first term.
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In the United States, it is rare for a president to be elected to the White House after only one term. In the 230-year history of the country, only nine of the candidates who ran again at the end of their first term failed to win again. Donald Trump would be the 10th in this series, and only the fourth since World War II.
George Bush Sr. from 1989 to 1993 and Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 served full terms. According to historians, in both cases, among other things, a poor economy sparked anger among voters. Gerald Ford, who replaced Richard Nixon in 1974 due to the Watergate scandal, only served three years between 1974 and 1977. Business was bad for him, too; many also criticized Nixon’s forgiveness.
Herbert Hoover was also convicted of the Great Depression when he lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was in office from 1929 to 1933. The terms of William Howard Taft in 1913 and Benjamin Harrison in 1893 ended more than 100 years ago. Grover Cleveland had the option in 1888 he lost to Harrison, but won a second term in his third candidacy in 1892.
The series is completed by Martin Van Buren, who was succeeded in 1841, and John Quincy Adams, who resigned in 1829, and his father, the second president of the United States, John Adams. America’s founding father was less fortunate four years after the 1796 victory: he lost to Thomas Jefferson.
