question: did an incumbent POTUS ever lose in the primaries already?

[Zebra]

i am an alien foreigner and really do not know

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Sure. Look em up. Good homework for you.

 

[rampart]

i am an alien foreigner and really do not know

i'm sure of it.

rfk in 1968 would be the first place i might look.

 

[Zebra]

i'm sure of it.

rfk in 1968 would be the first place i might look.

can you tell me more about it?

 

[rampart]

can you tell me more about it?

after further review, rfk won the ca primary, but lbj had already dropped out.

1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

ok, no use looking at rep[ub primaries. they are repubs, after all, and crave the approval of their authoritarian strong men and fear "retribution."

so maybe 1980, teddy vs jimmy carter? looks like kennedy won 12 of the 48 primaries that year.

 

[Zebra]

still asking …

 

[22lcidw]

after further review, rfk won the ca primary, but lbj had already dropped out.

1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

ok, no use looking at rep[ub primaries. they are repubs, after all, and crave the approval of their authoritarian strong men and fear "retribution."

so maybe 1980, teddy vs jimmy carter? looks like kennedy won 12 of the 48 primaries that year.

The Progs at the time pushed a man who murdered a woman some years earlier to be President.