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What happens when an incumbent is challenged by another candidate of the same party? Does the incumbent president have to go through primaries again?
Interesting! Has any President ever lost the primary and still won the general election?
No, a sitting president who loses their party's primary has never won the general election. However, in 1912, President Theodore Roosevelt left the Republican Party and ran as a third-party candidate, splitting the Republican vote and giving the Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson a victory.