Which Democrat candidate did Ronald Reagan defeat in the 1984 US Presidential Election?
1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota 1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota The 1984 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 1984, in Minnesota as part of the 1984 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate, former Vice President Walter Mondale, narrowly won his home state over incumbent President Ronald Reagan by just 3,761 votes, giving him his only state victory in the election (Mondale also carried the District of Columbia), resulting in the state weighing in at around 18% more Democratic than the nation at large. Minnesota was the only state not to back Reagan in either of his
Reagan Democrat Reagan Democrat A Reagan Democrat is a traditionally Democratic voter in the United States, referring especially to White working-class Rust Belt residents, who defected from their party to support Republican President Ronald Reagan at either or both of the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections as well as Republican Presidents George H. W. Bush at the 1988 presidential election and George W. Bush at either or both of the 2000 and 2004 elections. Part of this group also defected to Donald Trump, the Republican candidate at the 2016 presidential election, who won in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, all states