Historically speaking, impeachment may not be good for a president...
Of the two impeachment attempts and one near miss, the first one kind of stands out.
Nixon and Clinton were threatened with impeachment in their second term. Nixon resigned and Clinton was not eligible for re-election. Andrew Johnson, however, was eligible for re-election. since the term limits amendment wasn't passed until the 1950's. He actually tried to run, but failed to win his party's nomination. Now, Dems were in decline at the time, having been on the wrong side of much of the whole slavery/Civil War situation, but that is no reason Johnson should have failed to be nominated. IAE, Grant would go on to win election to a couple of the more scandal and corruption riddled terms in American presidential history, but that's not really part of the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868_United_States_presidential_election
The 1868 United States presidential election was the 21st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour. It was the first presidential election to take place after the conclusion of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Incumbent President Andrew Johnson had succeeded to the presidency in 1865 following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, a Republican. Johnson, a War Democrat from Tennessee, had served as Lincoln's running mate in 1864 on the National Union ticket, which was designed to attract Republicans and War Democrats. Upon accession to office, Johnson clashed with the Republican Congress over Reconstruction policies and was nearly removed from office. Johnson received some support for another term at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, but, after several ballots, the Democratic convention nominated Governor Seymour of New York. The 1868 Republican National Convention unanimously nominated General Grant, who had been the highest-ranking Union general at the end of the Civil War. The Democrats criticized the Republican Reconstruction policies, and "campaigned explicitly on an anti-black, pro-white platform,"[2] while Republicans campaigned on Grant's popularity and the Union victory in the Civil War.
Grant decisively won the electoral vote, but his margin was narrower in the popular vote. In addition to his appeal in the North, Grant benefited from votes among the newly enfranchised freedmen in the South, while the temporary political disfranchisement of many Southern whites helped Republican margins. As three of the former Confederate states (Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia) were not yet restored to the Union, their electors could not vote in the election. It was the first election in which African Americans could vote in the Reconstructed Southern states, in accordance with the First Reconstruction Act.
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