Mostly true. You could argue if Major Primary Contenders should be counted(Top 3 would be unchanged) and Biden is still the older President, Trump would have to win and make it to his 4th and final year to beat that. Reagan issue, people debated the definition back in 2016 too.
He was nominated by the Greenback party, (third party) running against the Democrat and Republican nominees. He had less than 1% chance to win according to his wiki. I’d say that no matter how fuzzy the definition of major party is, the Greenbacks weren’t that.
He sounds like he was an intelligent person who was concerned with social justice, especially for the native tribes.
Fair enough, but still, saying Trump is the oldest nominee ever, period, is wrong. He’s Number 2(albeit he’d have to last his whole term to beat Biden, similar to his prior age thing with Reagan in 2016) behind Cooper.
How about Trump is the oldest nominee of any major political party? Would that be accurate?
Or the oldest nominee in living memory?
Mostly true. You could argue if Major Primary Contenders should be counted(Top 3 would be unchanged) and Biden is still the older President, Trump would have to win and make it to his 4th and final year to beat that. Reagan issue, people debated the definition back in 2016 too.
Considering they said nominee, not major party, I think maybe major party nominee should not be counted.
The definition of major party was fuzzy back in the civil war reconstruction era
He was nominated by the Greenback party, (third party) running against the Democrat and Republican nominees. He had less than 1% chance to win according to his wiki. I’d say that no matter how fuzzy the definition of major party is, the Greenbacks weren’t that.
He sounds like he was an intelligent person who was concerned with social justice, especially for the native tribes.
Fair enough, but still, saying Trump is the oldest nominee ever, period, is wrong. He’s Number 2(albeit he’d have to last his whole term to beat Biden, similar to his prior age thing with Reagan in 2016) behind Cooper.
Yeah this was in the era of the Know Nothings so that’s good