Summarize the following paragraphs in 5 bullet points:

The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Republican candidate NAME_1, the governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president, NAME_2, won the election, defeating incumbent Vice President NAME_3. It was the fourth of five American 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, with long-standing controversy about the result.[2][3][4][5] NAME_4 conceded the election on December 13.

Incumbent President NAME_5 was ineligible to run for a third term due to presidential term limits, and NAME_4—the most recent incumbent vice president to run for president—secured the Democratic nomination with relative ease, defeating former U.S. Senator NAME_6 in the primaries. NAME_7 was seen as the early favorite for the Republican nomination, and after a contentious primary battle with U.S. Senator NAME_8 and others, secured the nomination by Super Tuesday. NAME_7 chose former Secretary of Defense NAME_9 as his running mate, while NAME_4 chose U.S. Senator NAME_10.

Both major-party candidates focused primarily on domestic issues, such as the budget, tax relief, and reforms for federal social insurance programs, although foreign policy was not ignored. Due to President NAME_5's sex scandal with NAME_11 and subsequent impeachment, NAME_4 avoided campaigning with NAME_12. Republicans denounced NAME_12's indiscretions, while NAME_4 criticized NAME_7's lack of experience. On election night, it was unclear who had won, with the electoral votes of the state of Florida still undecided. The returns showed that NAME_7 had won Florida by such a close margin that state law required a recount. A month-long series of legal battles led to the highly controversial 5–4 Supreme Court decision NAME_13, which ended the recount.

The recount having been ended, NAME_7 won Florida by 537 votes, a margin of 0.009%. The Florida recount and subsequent litigation resulted in major post-election controversy, and with speculative analysis suggesting that limited county-based recounts would likely have confirmed a NAME_7 victory, whereas a statewide recount would likely have given the state to NAME_4.[6][7] Ultimately, NAME_7 won 271 electoral votes, one vote more than the 270-to-win majority, despite NAME_4 receiving 543,895 more votes (a margin of 0.52% of  There should be exactly 3 paragraphs separated by the markdown divider: ***.
user