The Minnesota Democrat was on the wrong end of a Ronald Reagan landslide in 1984.
Walter Mondale, the former vice president whose accomplished career was marred by one of the worst electoral shellackings in American history, died Monday.
Mondale, who was also the first presidential candidate to select a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, to be his running mate, was 93. The Associated Press reported his death, citing his family.
The man known as “Fritz” had his seemingly effortless rise in politics halted twice by Ronald Reagan, once in 1980 when the Reagan-Bush ticket stomped Jimmy Carter’s bid for reelection and then, even more forcefully, in 1984, when Reagan obliterated Mondale’s bid for the presidency. Those defeats put an end to the momentum of an accomplished career that included 12 years in the Senate and four as Carter’s uncommonly active vice president.
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Walter Mondale, the former vice president whose accomplished career was marred by one of the worst electoral shellackings in American history, has died at age 93. https://t.co/wFD7oVMIni
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Not a fan of Mondale, but apart from politics, he was an ok guy. I guess he just wasn’t meant to be president.
Rest in peace.
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