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.
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2000 Republican Party presidential primaries in the context of 2000 United States presidential election
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 2000. The Republican ticket of Texas governor George W. Bush—the eldest son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush—and former secretary of defense Dick Cheney very narrowly defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent vice president Al Gore and Connecticut 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, and is considered one of the closest U.S. presidential elections in history, with long-standing controversy about the result.
Incumbent Democratic president Bill Clinton was ineligible to seek a third term because of term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. 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 was seen as the early favorite for the Republican nomination, and after a contentious primary battle with Arizona senator John McCain and others, he secured the nomination by Super Tuesday. He selected former secretary of defense Dick Cheney as his running mate.
2000 Republican Party presidential primaries in the context of Steve Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. (/fɔːrbz/; born July 18, 1947) is an American publisher, businessman, and politician who is the chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes, the business magazine. The son of longtime Forbes publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandson of that publication's founder B.C. Forbes, he is an adviser at the Forbes School of Business & Technology.
Forbes has served as head of the Board of International Broadcasting (BIB), and was a candidate in the 1996 and 2000 Republican presidential primaries and is known for his flat-tax plan which supported a flat tax of 17% on all personal and corporate earned income and keeping the first $33,000 of income exempt. Forbes hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live that aired on April 13, 1996, shortly after dropping out of the race that year. A Princeton graduate like his father, he holds honorary degrees from several universities, including the New York Institute of Technology and Lehigh University. Forbes is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi and Tau Kappa Epsilon.