{"id":2228857,"date":"2024-04-24T07:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T11:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-2024-americans-will-be-voting-like-its-1892\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T07:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T11:37:46","slug":"in-2024-americans-will-be-voting-like-its-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-2024-americans-will-be-voting-like-its-1892\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2024, Americans will vote as in 1892"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-2024-americans-will-be-voting-like-its-1892%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2228857&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses past presidential election rematches in American history, drawing\u200c parallels \u2062between\u200c the upcoming Trump vs. Biden rematch and historical elections. It particularly highlights the similarities between Grover\u2062 Cleveland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-would-happen-if-florida-revoked-disneys-special-governing-arrangement\/\" title=\"What Would Happen If Florida Revoked Disney\u2019s Special Governing Arrangement?\">political journey<\/a> and Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, \u200bindicating potential outcomes for the forthcoming election. The narrative underscores the significance of direct\u2063 comparisons in\u200c rematch elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>As the world\u2019s oldest continually functioning constitutional republic, few things are unprecedented in American politics. Even the pending rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, while a first within recent memory, has happened several times in our country\u2019s long history.<\/p>\n<p>There have been six presidential election rematches in American history, going all the way back to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson\u2019s showdown in 1800. In four of those rematches, the loser of the first tilt won.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-254403946\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5dff121fd138a401e2ca3a3066446884 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5dff121fd138a401e2ca3a3066446884\"><\/div>\n<p>But one election in particular stands out as a model for Trump vs. Biden round two: the 1892 election between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. To this day, it is the only rematch election between two men who had both served a term as president.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years before, in 1884, Grover Cleveland became an unlikely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-read-the-memo-provided-to-vp-pence-noting-that-he-has-the-opportunity-to-save-the-country\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Read the Memo Provided to VP Pence Noting that He Has the Opportunity to Save the Country\">presidential election winner<\/a>. While Cleveland was a Democrat, he resembled President Trump in many ways. In those days, the Republican Party was the party of America\u2019s establishment, while Democrats were the insurgent outsiders, still recovering from the aftermath of the Civil War. Like Trump, Cleveland was a surprise national political figure. In the fall of 1881, Cleveland was simply a prominent lawyer in Buffalo, New York. But after whirlwind stints as mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York, just three years later, Cleveland was president-elect.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Trump, Cleveland survived an election-year sex scandal, in his case an out-of-wedlock child rather than the Access Hollywood tape (times were simpler then). Just like Trump, he rocked to the top because voters were frustrated with corruption in both major parties. Just like Trump, his foreign policy emphasized noninterventionism, while his domestic policy emphasized a limited federal government and lower taxes (yes, Democrats were the low-tax party at one time).<\/p>\n<p>And just like Trump, Cleveland lost a nail-biter election in 1888, to Republican Benjamin Harrison, after the urban Tammany Hall political machine used its weight against Cleveland in New York City, costing him the state\u2019s election-deciding electoral votes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c778d9b3555efc73f7da803cd8978233 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c778d9b3555efc73f7da803cd8978233\"><\/div>\n<p>Even as Cleveland moved out of the White House the following spring, his wife supposedly told a staffer to take good care of all the building\u2019s furniture, \u201cfor I want to find everything just as it is now, when we come back four years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a bold boast, but it came true. Just like Trump, there was little doubt that Cleveland would be his party\u2019s champion again four years later. He romped to a win on the first ballot at the 1892 nominating convention. Just like Biden, meanwhile, President Harrison was dealing with surging prices and a divided party. Like in 2024, inflation was one of the key issues in 1892, as Harrison supported an inflationary monetary policy that depleted the nation\u2019s gold reserves, while Cleveland was the candidate of low inflation, the gold standard, and monetary discipline (it was a <em>very <\/em>different Democratic Party then).<\/p>\n<p>The 1892 election, just like this year\u2019s, had a formidable populist third-party candidate, James Weaver of the literal Populist Party, who managed to win 9 percent of the popular vote and the electoral votes of five states. And just like this year with Cornel West, there was <em>another <\/em>significant third-party candidate in John Bidwell of the Prohibition Party (yes, a single-issue \u201cban alcohol\u201d party).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all these forces, Grover Cleveland\u2019s third election was much stronger than either of his first two. In 1884, Cleveland had won 20 states with 219 electoral votes. Eight years later, he won 23 states worth more than 277.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a1266785479b79d8b3fdf7bc23574a76 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a1266785479b79d8b3fdf7bc23574a76\"><\/div>\n<p>I believe all the pieces are in place for Donald Trump to repeat Cleveland\u2019s feat. The determination is there, and the feeble incumbent is there. But the most important fact is this one: In a rematch like this one, voters don\u2019t have to speculate about whether the challenger might do better as president. Instead, they can just make a direct comparison. So how does that look?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-poll-shows-latino-voters-more-likely-to-vote-to-recall-newsom-in-california\/\" title=\"New Poll Shows Latino Voters More Likely To Vote To Recall Newsom In California\">poll conducted earlier<\/a> this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/14\/us\/politics\/poll-trump-views.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by The New York Times and Siena College<\/a> lays it all out: 42 percent of respondents believe Trump\u2019s presidency was mostly good for America, compared to a gruesome 25 percent for Biden. On the other side of the coin, while just 33 percent think Trump\u2019s presidency was mostly a bad time, for Biden the figure is an ugly 46 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/04\/03\/trump-biden-polls-2024-00150322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wall Street Journal poll<\/a> from March 17-24, just 38 percent of voters approve of Joe Biden\u2019s performance as president, but 51 percent approve of Donald Trump\u2019s performance during his term. This is 2024 in a nutshell \u2014 just like it was in 1892.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have had three years and change to evaluate Joe Biden in the White House, and their thoughts are clear: Donald Trump did it better.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans must make that the central question every voter is asking themselves come November: Who was better? Who was better on the border? Whose economic policies led to prosperity and a blue-collar boom, and whose led to inflation and oligarchy? Whose foreign policy created peace, and whose created chaos? Whose actions enraged the incompetent elites Americans loathe, and whose won their steadfast support?<\/p>\n<p>Because in 2024, unlike any other election in our lifetimes, there is no speculation. Both candidates have a record, and we know which president saw success and which one has only produced one failure, flop, and crisis after another.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s make Joe Biden 2024\u2019s Benjamin Harrison.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e8597d83df54c5e9c40879f8562d67b5 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e8597d83df54c5e9c40879f8562d67b5\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world&#8217;s oldest functioning constitutional republic, American politics rarely sees unprecedented events. The upcoming rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, though a recent rarity, is not new in the nation&#8217;s history. Throughout American history, there have been six presidential election rematches, dating back to the early days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2300,"featured_media":2228858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/presz.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/presz.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}