100 years Quote by Juan Williams

In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower,…

— Mitch McConnell

As a general rule, midterm elections - in both their first terms and their second terms - aren't kind to incumbent presidents, even popular…

— Steve Kornacki

Numerous candidates lose their first White House race and try again four years later - but all of them do so after running surprisingly…

— Steve Kornacki

History suggests that the opportunity to run again for the presidency four years after losing is reserved for those who exceeded expectations their first…

— Steve Kornacki

Presidents fall into second-term slumps for different reasons.

— Michael Beschloss

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

— Mort Sahl

The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times'…

— Fabrizio Moreira

Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular vote. Woodrow…

— Chuck Todd

I don't think there's ever been a president elected who, in this short period of time, has done what we've done.

— Donald Trump

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

— Bob Dole

That is why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at…

— Mitt Romney

One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.

— Ed Gillespie