The only challengers to do better than Joe Biden’s 51.3% of the popular vote were Thomas Jefferson in 1800 (61.4%), Andrew Jackson in 1828 (56.4%), William H. Harrison in 1840 (52.9%), and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 (57.4%).
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they ate mostly into their opponents vote share
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There were third party challengers in 2020.
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True. But the low performance of the 3rd party challengers is itself a measure of Biden's strength and Trump's weakness, not an exogenous variable.
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We had 3rd parties this time too
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Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft in 1912 is the interesting one. The lowest popular vote ever for an incumbent president and the only time one of the major party nominees came in third.
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