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On May 29, 2012, former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts won the 2012 nomination by the Republican Party for President of the United States, and became the presumptive nominee of the party.[1][2] On August 11, 2012, Romney officially announced his selection of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate to supporters via an iPhone app, though the selection of Ryan had already leaked to the press hours before the official announcement.[3] Ryan was the first individual from Wisconsin to appear on a national ticket of a major party as a nominee either for President or Vice President of the United States, although third-party presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette won 16% of the popular vote in the 1924 election.[4] The Romney–Ryan ticket ultimately lost to the Obama–Biden ticket in the 2012 presidential election, but the defeat did not harm either of their careers; from 2015 to 2019, Ryan served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives while Romney, having moved to Utah, has been in the United States Senate since 2019.
- ^ Romney Finally Gets His Title: Presumptive Republican Nominee Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.National Journal. April 11, 2012.
- ^ "Romney hits 'magic number' for GOP nomination". CNN. May 30, 2012.
- ^ Rucker, Philip; Helderman, Rosalind S. (August 12, 2012). "Gallery". The Washington Post.
- ^ Ryan joins host of Wisconsin politicians in U.S. limelight Archived December 8, 2012, at archive.today (August 11, 2012), Wisconsin State-Journal.
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