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A candidate can drop from the race at any time.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Republican Party candidate in 1904 and the Progressive Party candidate in 1912. That was the last time the candidate of a party other than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party came in 2nd in a U. S. Presidential election.
That was Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs.
Yes, he was the first republican presidential candidate to win for office at this time.
when the party's presidential candidate has been chosen but before the election takes place
Roosevelt had been the vice-presidential candidate in 1920 and so was known nationally. In 1928 he was elected governor of New York . He won most of the primaries in 1932 and so was the front runner by the time of convention.
No, Dr. Wilson was the Governor of New Jersey at that time.
Virginia voted for Obama/Biden in both 2008 and 2012. 2008 was the first time Virginia voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since voting for Johnson/Humphrey in 1964.
It was the first presidential election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President was a candidate.It was the first time since 1984 that a major-party vice-presidential candidate was female.It was the first time we elected someone whose ancestry is only 50% European.
It usually happens during the summer of the election year, sometime before the party's national convention.