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By 4:30 a.m., after all votes were counted, Gore had narrowed Bush's margin to under 2,000 votes, and the networks retracted their declarations that Bush had won Florida and the presidency. Gore, who had privately conceded the election to Bush, withdrew his concession. The final result in Florida was slim enough to require a mandatory recount ...
The 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the then-governor of Texas, was formally launched on June 14, 1999, as Governor Bush, the eldest son of former President George H. W. Bush, announced his intention to seek the Republican Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2000 presidential election.
2000: Al Gore‡ George W. Bush† Ralph Nader Pat Buchanan Harry Browne (Libertarian) 2004: John Kerry: George W. Bush† Ralph Nader (Independent/Reform) Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) Michael Peroutka (Constitution) David Cobb 2008: Barack Obama† John McCain: Ralph Nader (Independent) Bob Barr (Libertarian) Chuck Baldwin (Constitution)
According to an independent recount by the Miami Herald and USA TODAY in 2001, Bush won the election by 1,665 votes. Former Herald editor Marty Baron still stands by those results.
In August 2000, Gore announced that he had selected Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut as his vice presidential running mate. Lieberman became "the first person of the Jewish faith to run for the nation's second-highest office" (Barry Goldwater, who ran for president in 1964, was of "Jewish origin"). [28]
From January 24 to June 6, 2000, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 2000 United States presidential election. Texas Governor George W. Bush was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2000 Republican National Convention held from July 31 to August 3, 2000, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The 2000 United States elections were held on November 7, 2000. Republican governor George W. Bush of Texas defeated Democratic Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee in the presidential election. Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress , giving the party unified control of Congress and the presidency for the first time since the ...
The 2000 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney, began on February 21, 2000. He cited "a crisis of democracy" as motivation to run. [ 1 ] He ran in the 2000 United States presidential election as the nominee of the Green Party .