Typically, when incumbent vice presidents are running to succeed their bosses, they campaign on the popularity of the sitting president.
George H.W. Bush won 40 states and the White House in 1988 essentially by running for Ronald Reagan’s third term, something the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution did not allow the Gipper to do himself.
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