2000 United States presidential election

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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 2000. The Republican ticket of Texas governor George W. Bush and former secretary of defense Dick Cheney narrowly defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent vice president Al Gore and Connecticut junior senator Joe Lieberman. It was the fourth of five U.S. presidential elections, and the first since 1888, in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. By number of votes that could have changed the outcome, it is the closest presidential election in U.S. history. The result remains controversial. Incumbent Democratic president Bill Clinton was ineligible to run for a third term due to term limits established by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Incumbent vice president Gore easily secured the Democratic nomination, defeating former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley in the primaries. He selected Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Bush—the eldest son of former president...

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