During his 16 years in office, he earned national acclaim for his focus on education. But losing his bid for the Senate in 1984 cost him a shot at the presidency.
Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina in 1982. He sustained the state’s Democrats as a political force for more than a quarter century, even as he lost a vicious Senate race to Jesse Helms in 1984.
In some ways, Trump’s broader flexing of power has achieved what he set out to do. But his attempts to push prosecutions of rivals have been far less successful.
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