[dawn53]

Just from a historical perspective...has there even been a candidate nominated to run for President who wasn’t running during the primaries?

This author has an overactive imagination, IMHO.

[jdm]

There’s a first time for everything.

[I_Like_Spam]

Just from a historical perspective...has there even been a candidate nominated to run for President who wasn’t running during the primaries?
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Plenty, although the most recent was Humphrey in 1968

[willgolfforfood]

I believe Hubert Humphrey in 1968 was the Democrat nominee, as he was picked at the temultuous convention in Chicago that year. He ran in no primaries anywhere in the nation.

If memory serves. I was in junior high then, and the details of all of that meant nothing to me at the time.