[News] Joe Biden Wins Election: The Other 3 US Presidents Who Didn't Get Re-Elected Before Donald Trump

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Donald Trump will be a one-term president. He was defeated at the polls.

The Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Saturday surpassed the barrier of the 270 electoral votes needed to become the new tenant of the White House, according to the BBC and other US media projected.

 

This year's US elections already have their place in the history books.

And not only because of the coronavirus pandemic, the time it has taken to know the results of the elections or the unfounded accusations of Trump's fraud, but also because the outgoing president will become one of the few who has failed to repeat in The charge.

 

And it is that since the United States elected its first president (George Washington) more than 200 years ago, only 10 leaders had lost their race for a second term in the White House.

 

The fact, in itself, is seen by some historians as a management failure and, in most cases, as a vote of punishment by Americans towards controversial policies or positions of their rulers.

At BBC Mundo we tell you who were the presidents who lost re-election in the last century, before Donald Trump.

 

George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)

The former CIA director and father of former President George W. Bush was the last of the US leaders to lose re-election before Trump.

Although he did not make it to the primaries when he ran for president in 1980, his path to the White House was made for him when then-Republican candidate Ronald Reagan asked him to become his running mate.

He served as Reagan's vice president from 1981 to 1989, when he was elected to the presidency.

He passed several trade treaties that became po[CENSORED]r and enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

However, the Gulf War during his term undermined his po[CENSORED]rity and the arrival on the Democratic political scene of Bill Clinton, a young and charismatic candidate, weighed down his chances of victory and he lost in the 1993 elections.

 

James Carter (1977-1981)

Democrat Jimmy Carter drank his own medicine at the end of his presidency: he came to office after overthrowing Gerard Ford, who then held the White House after Nixon's resignation and was looking to stay for another cycle in office.

And Carter denied him the possibility in 1976.

Ford, by the way, could also be part of this list, since he failed to repeat, although the truth is that he was never elected to the position: he came to the presidency due to a series of resignations after the Watergate case.

Carter took several progressive measures and even made notable approaches to governments in Latin America, including that of "communist" Cuba, where he opened an "office of interests" to try to improve relations with Fidel Castro.

However, economic problems hampered his po[CENSORED]rity, which was seriously damaged by the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran (Iran) near the end of his term.

He was defeated by Reagan in the 1980 elections.

 

Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

Hoover was the 31st president of the United States and his failed re-election confirmed what appears to be an unwritten law: If the economy does not do well, the president is rarely re-elected.

And it is that Hoover had one of the most critical economic moments in US history: the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.

Blamed for these events and for his inability to contain economic and financial losses, he was defeated in the 1932 elections by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was, incidentally, the only president of the United States who was elected for more than two terms.