American Elections: Wicked Game

1840, Van Buren vs. Harrison: Ole Tip

48 min • 19 december 2023

The Whigs seek to deny President Martin Van Buren a second term by taking a page out of the Republican playbook, and run a war hero candidate of their own: General William Henry Harrison; the hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe, a man the Whigs portray as a hero of the common man.

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