It may have happened and I just don't remember it, but has a major political party ever declined to nominate its own incumbent President who wanted another term? I think the GOP denied former president Teddy Roosevelt nomination, but he was not incumbent at the time
Yeah, Ford is the only possibility I can think of. And like you, I'm not sure that happened to Ford.
The results of most US Presidential elections, all the way back to the founding era, are available on line. You could check all the elections that followed a one term president to see if the incumbent was his party's candidate.
It's a bit odd, but 1868. Johnson was vice president on the Republican ticket, but personally was a Democrat. He tried for the Democratic nomination in 1868, and failed.
Biden got nomination in 2024, but who switched it to Harris? Is this situation similar to the original question?
He was convinced to concede the nomination by the hierarchy of the Democratic Party as his mental and physical health were both failing.
Being a life-long Lib myself, Joe should never have run for reelection. There should be an age limit to run. Just my opinion.
There should be an age limit to run.
There is. You must be at least 35 years old to be president.
As to a maximum age, there are 80-year-olds as sharp as 50-year-olds, and 50-year-olds as [you fill in the adjective for lack of mental capacity] as 80-year-olds.
The point is more that nobody's brain works as well at 80 as it did at 50. If you start with someone clever then they might still get by at 80, day to day, but it will be a deterioration.
So if your starting point is a TV show host, and the job involves remembering and processing an immense amount of information, it's going to be problematic isn't it. Windmills , Bibi, ICE, all these simplifications. Joe, the same, like Afghanistan.
Warren Buffet is 95 years old and finally retiring. I think he was pretty sharp at 80.
It's not the number of years. It's their mental capacity.
Or lack thereof.
And in Joe's case, even Ronald Reagan was making jokes about Biden's mental capabilities while he (Reagan) was in office. More than 30 years before Biden managed to attain the presidency.
Being a life-long Lib myself, Joe should never have run for reelection. There should be an age limit to run. Just my opinion.
I consider my self a conservative leaning libertarian, a minarchist. Joe should never have run (full stop).
I agree on the upper age limit, but that would take a constitutional amendment.
The two most recent 'near misses' were Ronald Reagan (vs Ford) in 1976 and Teddy Kennedy (vs Carter) in 1980.
You were close.
After serving for two terms (he served most of POTUS McKinley's second term, after he was assassinated), TR (Theodore Roosevelt) 'sponsored' Taft to be the GOP nominee for the 1908 election; Taft was elected POTUS. However, TR challenged Taft, the incumbent POTUS, for the 1912 GOP Nomination for POTUS. The GOP chose the current incumbent, Taft, over TR.
Roosevelt then formed the "Bull Moose" Party; resulting in Wodrow Wilson getting elected...
and I believe that was the last time a major party candidate finished out of the top 2 in electoral votes. But yes, Teddy split the R votes, allowing Wilson to win the election.