claim: "donald trump performed better than any presidential nominee since gerald ford."
author: nicholas langworthy
evidence_1: oct 9, 2018 ... the numbers are better for donald trump than you think. .... a woman who  accused a supreme court nominee of sexual assault at a rally. ... in fact, trump's  approval rating is more polarized than any president since dwight ... in office,  while gerald ford had slightly better ratings than trump and still lost.
evidence_2: sep 28, 2016 ... wayback machine baldwin has taken aim at trump before, since he ... so, let's  see if that's what every democratic and republican presidential nominee since  1976 has ... from the boston globe, which said it's been more than 40 years. ...  only republican gerald ford, who lost to democrat jimmy carter in ...
evidence_3: since the early 1970s, however, most presidents have chosen to release their ...  more widely available, the tax history project at tax analysts has compiled an ...  we have made available returns from recent candidates for president, including  those ... gerald ford did not release his returns, but he did release summary data  ...
evidence_4: apr 22, 2016 ... and it was the last until, most likely, this summer's gop convention in cleveland.  unless donald trump wins 392 more delegates in the remaining primaries, ...  though, were not on the minds of reagan's or ford's aides that summer. ... now  he'd need to win a presidential nomination, and after 30 primaries ...
evidence_5: jul 30, 2000 ... although reagan was running even with or behind president carter in most polls  ... after all, reagan and ford had fought intensely for the nomination in 1976. ...  and so i did something rash: i decided to try to contact george bush. ... bring  more to the ticket to help reagan than anyone on the list of choices.