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| 2004 Republican Party presidential primaries | ||||
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| January 19 to June 8, 2004 | ||||
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| Nominee | George W. Bush | Uncommitted | ||
| Home state | Texas | - | ||
| States carried | 49 | 0 | ||
| Popular vote | 7,853,863 | 91,926 | ||
| Percentage | 98.1% | 1.2% | ||
| Delegate count | 2,590 | 0
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From January 19 to June 8, 2004, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 2004 United States presidential election. Incumbent President George W. Bush was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2004 Republican National Convention held from August 30 to September 2, 2004, in New York City. Bush went on to lose the re-election on November 2, 2004, to Democratic Senator John Kerry.
Primary race overview[]
Incumbent President George W. Bush announced in mid-2003 that he would campaign for re-election; he faced no major challengers. He then went on, throughout early 2004, to win every nomination contest, including a sweep of Super Tuesday, beating back the vacuum of challengers and maintaining the recent tradition of an easy primary for incumbent Presidents (the last time an incumbent was seriously challenged in a presidential primary contest was when Senator Ted Kennedy challenged Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination in 1980). Bush managed to raise US$130 million in 2003 alone, and expected to set a national primary fund-raising record of $200 million by the time of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.
Several states and territories canceled their respective Republican primaries altogether, citing Bush being the only candidate to qualify on their respective ballot, including Connecticut, Florida, Mississippi, New York, Puerto Rico, and South Dakota.
Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, an opponent of the Bush's tax cuts, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and much of Bush's social agenda, considered challenging Bush in the New Hampshire primary in the fall of 2003. He decided not to run in December 2003. He would later change his party affiliation to Democratic and run in that party's 2016 presidential primaries
Candidates[]
Nominee[]
| Candidate | Most recent office | Home state | Campaign Withdrawal date |
Popular vote |
Contests won | Running mate | ||
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| George W. Bush |
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President of the United States (2001–2005) |
 Texas |
 (Campaign • Positions) Secured nomination: March 10, 2004 |
7,853,863 (98.01%) |
49 | Dick Cheney | |