Mr. Humphrey, who had lost a presidential race eight years earlier, told him it would get worse before it got better. “Today, people will be second-guessing you,” Mr. Humphrey told Mr. Dole, the running mate of Gerald R. Ford, the incumbent president defeated by Jimmy Carter. “Somebody coming from a successful business to politics, if he should lose — I’m not certain what the reaction would be,” Mr. Dole said. Mr. Dole’s loss to Mr. Clinton in 1996 was less painful than his 1976 defeat, he said, primarily because he considered Mr. Clinton his friend. They “still are friends as far as I know,” said Mr. Dole, the only former Republican presidential nominee to endorse Mr. Trump.

Source: New York Times November 08, 2016 00:52 UTC