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Following Ross Perot's impressive showing during the 1996 presidential election, the Reform Party of the United States of America became the country's largest third party. The party's 2000 presidential candidate would be entitled to $12.5 million (~$21 million in 2023) in matching funds.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
The party has nominated other presidential candidates over the years, including Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader. [4] [5] Its most significant victory came when Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1998, although he left the party shortly into his term. Donald Trump was a member of the Reform Party during his brief 2000 presidential ...
In an interview, he called himself more libertarian than 2016 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Gary Johnson. His priorities are withdrawing the U.S. from NATO and ending the Federal Reserve ...
Pat Buchanan eventually won the Reform Party presidential nomination at a chaotic [119] National Convention in Long Beach in August 2000. [120] Buchanan had lost the support of the Perot faction, which accused Buchanan of fraud and held a counter-convention, nominating Buchanan's only major opponent physicist John Hagelin of the Natural Law ...
The Reform Party of the United States of America held primary elections for its presidential candidate in May 2016. Out of 5 contestants, Rocky De La Fuente emerged as the party nominee. 2016 U.S. presidential election
In the 2000 presidential election, Perot refused to become openly involved with the internal Reform Party dispute between supporters of Pat Buchanan and John Hagelin. Perot was reportedly unhappy with what he saw as the disintegration of the party, as well as his own portrayal in the press; thus, he chose to remain quiet.
This article contains lists of official and potential third-party and independent candidates associated with the 2016 United States presidential election. "Third party" is a term commonly used in the United States in reference to political parties other than the two major parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.