Card, Bill Weld, 2020
date: label: date made
content: 2019 - 2020
label: associated date
content: 2020-02-03
name: label: associated
content: Republican Party
label: referenced
content: Weld, Bill
notes: label: Description
content: Bill Weld challenged President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination. This card was collected at a Weld event in Des Moines prior to the Iowa Caucuses. He won one delegate in Iowa and over 9% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary. Weld suspended his campaign on March 18, 2020.
label: Description
content: Prior to his 2020 presidential campaign, Weld served as governor of Massachusetts and ran unsuccessfully for governor of New York, both as a Republican. In 2016, Weld was the vice-presidential nominee on the Libertarian ticket headed by Gary Johnson. They received almost 4.5 million votes, the highest total ever recorded by the Libertarian Party. Weld rejoined the Republican party in January 2019, one month before announcing his 2020 presidential exploratory committee.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Iowa, Des Moines
topic: label: general subject association
content: Political Campaigns
label: general subject association
content: Elections
label: general subject association
content: Voting
label: related event
content: Presidential Campaign of 2020
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
label: See more items in
content: Government, Politics, and Reform
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0028.01
label: accession number
content: 2021.0028
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0028.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Card, Business
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 8.89 cm