A report on Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States), Ronald Reagan and 1980 United States presidential election

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Ronald Reagan's boyhood home in Dixon, Illinois

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Ronald Reagan campaigning with his wife Nancy and Senator Strom Thurmond in Columbia, South Carolina, October 10, 1980

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

Capt. Ronald Reagan at Fort Roach, 1943 or 1944.

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

Guest stars for the premiere of The Dick Powell Show, 1961. Reagan can be seen wearing a ten-gallon hat on the far left.

Ronald Reagan shaking hands with supporters at a campaign stop in Indiana

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Reagan testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, October 1947

President Carter (left) and former Governor Reagan (right) at the presidential debate on October 28, 1980

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Reagan and his first wife Jane Wyman, 1942

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Wedding of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, 1952. Matron of honor Brenda Marshall (left) and best man William Holden (right) were the sole guests.

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Nancy and Ronald Reagan aboard a boat in California, 1964

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

The Reagans meet with President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, July 1970

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Reagan and President Ford shake hands on the podium after Reagan narrowly lost the nomination at the 1976 Republican National Convention

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Ronald Reagan, moderator Jon Breen, and Bush participate in the Nashua, New Hampshire presidential debate, 1980

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

President and Mrs. Reagan at the 1981 inauguration parade

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Supreme Court justice-nominee Sandra Day O'Connor talks with Reagan outside the White House, July 15, 1981.

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Reagan outlines his plan for Tax Reduction Legislation in a televised address from the Oval Office, July 1981

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

Reagan addresses Congress on the Program for Economic Recovery, April 28, 1981 (a few weeks after surviving the assassination attempt)

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

As the first U.S. president invited to speak before the British Parliament (June 8, 1982), Reagan predicted Marxism–Leninism would end up on the "ash heap of history".

President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

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Meeting with leaders of the Afghan Mujahideen in the Oval Office, 1983

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Reagan with actress Sigourney Weaver and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia supplied money and arms to the anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan.

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Reagan (far left) and First Lady Nancy Reagan pay their respects to the 17 American victims of the April 18 attack on the U.S. embassy by Hezbollah in Beirut, 1983

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

1984 presidential electoral votes by state. Reagan (red) won every state except Mondale's home state of Minnesota; Mondale also carried the District of Columbia.

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Reagan is sworn in for a second term as president by Chief Justice Burger in the Capitol rotunda

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (here with Reagan in 1986) granted the U.S. use of British airbases to launch the Libya attack.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Reagan (center) receives the Tower Commission Report regarding the Iran-Contra affair in the Cabinet Room with John Tower (left) and Edmund Muskie (right)

Challenging Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Gorbachev and Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House, December 1987

The Reagans with a model of USS Ronald Reagan, May 1996

Reagan lying in state in the Capitol rotunda

A bronze statue of Reagan standing in the National Statuary Hall Collection

President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev, 1985

Approval ratings for President Reagan (Gallup)

Former President Reagan returns to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush, 1993

{{circa}} 1916–17. Pictured from left: Father Jack, older brother Neil, Reagan (with "Dutchboy" haircut), and mother Nelle

1920s. As a teenager, in Dixon, Illinois

{{circa|lk=no|1960}}. Hosting General Electric Theater

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

A member of the Republican Party starting in 1962, he previously served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader.

- Ronald Reagan

Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory.

- 1980 United States presidential election

After failed presidential bids in 1968 and 1976, challenging and nearly defeating sitting president Gerald Ford in the latter's Republican primaries, Reagan easily won the Republican nomination in the 1980 presidential election and went on to defeat incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter.

- Ronald Reagan

Kennedy and Johnson's advocacy of civil rights further solidified black support for the Democrats but had the effect of alienating Southern whites who would eventually gravitate toward the Republican Party, particularly after the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980.

- Democratic Party (United States)

With the initial support of evangelical Christian voters in the South, Carter was temporarily able to reunite the disparate factions within the party, but inflation and the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979–1980 took their toll, resulting in a landslide victory for Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan in 1980, which shifted the political landscape in favor of the Republicans for years to come.

- Democratic Party (United States)

The second half of the 20th century saw the election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

- Republican Party (United States)

He'd go on to become governor of California two years later, and in 1980, win the presidency.

- Republican Party (United States)

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Gerald Ford

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American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and was the only president never to have been elected to the office of president or vice president.

The Gunnery officers of USS Monterey (CVL-26), 1943. Ford is second from the right, in the front row.

A billboard for Ford's 1948 congressional campaign from Michigan's 5th district

The Warren Commission (Ford 4th from left) presents its report to President Johnson (1964)

Congressman Gerald Ford, MSFC director Wernher von Braun, Congressman George H. Mahon, and NASA Administrator James E. Webb visit the Marshall Space Flight Center for a briefing on the Saturn program, 1964.

Gerald and Betty Ford with the President and First Lady Pat Nixon after President Nixon nominated Ford to be vice president, October 13, 1973.

Gerald Ford is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Warren Burger in the White House East Room, while Betty Ford looks on.

President Ford appears at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in reference to his pardon of Richard Nixon

Ford and his golden retriever, Liberty, in the Oval Office, 1974

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ford in the Oval Office, 1975

Ford meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to sign a joint communiqué on the SALT treaty during the Vladivostok Summit, November 1974

Countries visited by Ford during his presidency

Ford and his daughter Susan watch as Henry Kissinger (right) shakes hands with Mao Zedong, December 2, 1975

Indonesian President Suharto with Ford and Kissinger in Jakarta on December 6, 1975, one day before the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.

Reaction immediately after the second assassination attempt

John Paul Stevens, Ford's only Supreme Court appointment.

Governor Ronald Reagan congratulates President Ford after the president successfully wins the 1976 Republican nomination, while Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, and Nelson Rockefeller look on.

Jimmy Carter and Ford in a presidential debate, September 23, 1976.

On July 16, 1980 (day 3 of the 1980 Republican National Convention) Gerald Ford consults with Bob Dole, Howard Baker and Bill Brock before making a decision to ultimately decline the offer to serve as Ronald Reagan's running mate

Ford joins President Bill Clinton and former presidents George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter on stage at the dedication of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, November 6, 1997

Ford at his 90th birthday with Laura Bush, President George W. Bush, and Betty Ford in the White House State Dining Room in 2003

Ford lying in state in the Capitol rotunda

The Fords on their wedding day, October 15, 1948

President George W. Bush with Ford and his wife Betty on April 23, 2006

He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974.

In the 1976 Republican presidential primary campaign, Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but narrowly lost the presidential election to the Democratic challenger, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.

Ford considered a run for the Republican nomination in 1980, forgoing numerous opportunities to serve on corporate boards to keep his options open for a rematch with Carter.