Even those strong victories are dwarfed by Ronald Reagan’s 1984 win, a true landslide. Reagan lost only Washington, DC, and Minnesota, the home state of his Democratic rival, Walter Mondale ...

“I knew he had gotten me there,” Mondale told journalist Jim Lehrer in 1990. Reagan’s landslide victory largely answered the public’s questions about the president’s health. Some ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

arguing that the Iranians were pushed to make a deal after Reagan’s landslide defeat of Carter. In this telling of events, Tehran feared a forceful retaliation from Reagan if the hostages weren ...

President Ronald Reagan was reelected in a landslide in 1984, and a key moment in the second presidential debate is often seen as encapsulating this victory. The 1992 election provided a rare ...

Trump won the popular vote by the smallest margin of any president since Richard Nixon — for the second time, winning the ...

Four years later, Mr. Spencer helped lead Reagan to an even bigger landslide victory over former vice president Walter F. Mondale. According to Brinkley, Mr. Spencer helped Reagan neuter attacks ...

Pressing law-and-order issues at the time of the Watts riots in Los Angeles and tumultuous antiwar demonstrations, Mr. Reagan won in a landslide. And with Mr. Spencer running his 1970 campaign ...