1980 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection

none 1980 Republican vice presidential nomination primary 1976 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection 1976 1988 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection 1988 1980 07 17 160x160px George H. W. Bush DE0100 Texas Vice Presidential nominee Bob Dole George H. W. Bush thumb|right|On July 16 Gerald Ford consulted with Bob Dole, Howard Baker and Bill Brock concerning the vice presidential nomination. Reagan would eventually choose Bush. This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1980 election. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan won the 1980 Republican nomination for President of the United States, and chose former CIA Director George H. W. Bush as his running mate. Reagan had considered naming former president Gerald Ford as his running mate, but after it became clear that Ford and Reagan were unable to agree to be on the same ticket (a televised interview with Ford brought up possibility of a "co-presidency"), Reagan turned to Bush, his primary rival for the 1980 Republican nomination.Allen Richard George Walker Bush; The Accidental Vice President https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/30/magazine/george-walker-bush-the-accidental-vice-president.html?pagewanted=all 5 October 2015 New York Times 30 July 2000Plissner Martin From Ike To Jerry Ford https://www.cbsnews.com/news/from-ike-to-jerry-ford/ 5 October 2015 CBS News 27 December 2006 Though Bush had criticized Reagan's policies, Reagan chose Bush to help unify the party, and Bush agreed to be on the ticket and to support Reagan's platform.Walsh Kenneth Reagan and Bush's Admirable Partnership https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/03/17/reagan-and-bushs-admirable-partnership 5 October 2015 U.S. News & World Report 17 March 2011Witcover Jules The Dynasty That Almost Wasn't https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/the-dynasty-that-almost-wasnt-213150/ 5 October 2015 Politico 15 September 2015 The Reagan–Bush ticket would go on to defeat the Democratic tickets of Carter–Mondale in 1980 and Mondale–Ferraro in 1984. Bush was later elected president in his own right in 1988 but ultimately lost his bid for re-election to Bill Clinton in 1992. When Reagan unsuccessfully sought the 1976 nomination, he had named Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate, but Schweiker was not considered again when Reagan won the 1980 nomination. Schweiker was later named Reagan's Secretary of Health and Human Services. Potential running mates Sigelman Lee Wahlbeck Paul December 1997 The "Veepstakes": Strategic Choice in Presidential Running Mate Selection The American Political Science Review 91 4 858 10.2307/2952169 2952169Meacham Jon https://books.google.com/books?id=iMgOCAAAQBAJ Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush Random House 2015 978-1-4000-6765-72023-12-23 Reagan Would Rather Go It Alone, but Choose He Must https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/07/10/reagan-would-rather-go-it-alone-but-choose-he-must/746c9719-db7a-4161-8398-3629ebd8f748/ 2024-06-08 Washington Post en-US 0190-8286 See also Ronald Reagan 1980 presidential campaign 1980 Republican Party presidential primaries 1980 Republican National Convention 1980 United States presidential election List of United States major party presidential tickets References Category:Republican Party (United States) vice presidential nominees Category:1980 United States presidential election Category:Ronald Reagan Category:George H. W. Bush Category:Gerald Ford Category:Jack Kemp Category:Donald Rumsfeld Republican vice