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2000 presidential election | |
Convention | |
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Date(s) | August 10-12 |
City | Long Beach, California |
Venue | Long Beach Convention Center |
Candidates | |
Presidential nominee | Pat Buchanan of Virginia |
Vice presidential nominee | Ezola B. Foster of Louisiana |
Other candidates | John Hagelin of Iowa Donald Trump of New York |
‹ 1996 · 2004 › |
The 2000 Reform Party National Convention held August 10-12, 2000 in Long Beach, California,[1] was the second national convention of the Reform Party of the United States of America. During the event, political commentator Pat Buchanan was nominated for President of the United States and school teacher Ezola B. Foster was selected as his running mate.[2]
Prior to the convention, the party had been deeply divided between two factions competing for the future of the party. On one side were the supporters of the party's 1996 presidential nominee Ross Perot, who had founded the party after his 1992 presidential run. On the other side were the anti-Perot members, who felt Perot had too much power in the party. The dispute between the factions escalated and complicated matters as the convention neared.[3]
Because of Perot's 8.4 percent showing during the 1996 election, the party had achieved ballot access in several states and qualified for matching campaign funds of $12.5 million.[4] As a result, several candidates vied for the nomination including: entrepreneur Donald Trump filed an exploratory committee with the FEC, but withdrew several months before the convention; social conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, who left the Republican Party to seek the nomination, was viewed as the frontrunner; Dr. John Hagelin, who had already won the nomination of the Natural Law Party, gained acceptance from the Perot faction and was seen as the anti-Buchanan candidate.
By a margin of 49,529 to 28,539 in the mail-in votes, Buchanan won the nomination at convention,[5] which had descended into chaos.[6] The Perot faction accused Buchanan of fraud and held a counter-convention, nominating Hagelin.[2] However, courts ruled against the Perot faction and invalided the Hagelin selection. On election day, Buchanan won 0.43% of the popular vote.