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The Reform Party never recovered from the 2000 fiasco. Many longtime members departed, the party's funds were depleted, and its reputation severely tarnished. On Election Day, Pat Buchanan only received 448,895 votes, thus losing the Reform Party's ballot access in most states. Buchanan returned to the Republican Party in 2001.
Internal conflict caused Ventura to exit the Reform Party in February 2000, removing Trump's most vocal proponent. Trump officially ended his campaign on the February 14, 2000 airing of The Today Show on NBC. Although he believed he could still win the Reform Party presidential nomination, he felt the party was too dysfunctional to support his ...
The Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA), generally known as the Reform Party USA or the Reform Party, is a centrist political party in the United States, founded in 1995 by Ross Perot. Perot believed Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital issues.
In response to Buchanan's rise within the party, several prominent members departed the Reform Party. In a February 2000 letter, Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, who had two years earlier been elected as the Reform nominee and thereby became the first Reform governor in America, announced that he was leaving the party and would seek to change ...
The 2000 presidential election also marked the realignment of much of the Western United States, particularly the West Coast, to the Democratic Party. Gore narrowly won Oregon (by 0.44%) and New Mexico (by 0.06%), the latter of which was actually closer in raw votes than Florida.
[78] [79] In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, he was briefly considered as possible candidate for the Reform Party nomination but instead endorsed Ralph Nader, who was nominated by the Green Party. [80] In January 2008, Anderson indicated strong support for the candidacy of a fellow Illinoisan, Democratic contender Barack Obama. [81]
He was ousted as Reform Party chairman by a 109–31 vote in February 2000. He asked his supporters to boycott the illegally-called convention. [6] He was a guest speaker at the 2000 Libertarian National Convention, as well as at the Harvard Law School Forum in 1999.
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