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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. NAME_3. NAME_4, won the election, defeating incumbent Vice President NAME_5. 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_6 conceded the election on December 13.

Incumbent President NAME_7 was ineligible to run for a third term due to presidential term limits, and NAME_6—the most recent incumbent vice president to run for president—secured the Democratic nomination with relative ease, defeating former U.S. Senator NAME_8 in the primaries. NAME_4 was seen as the early favorite for the Republican nomination, and after a contentious primary battle with U.S. Senator NAME_9 and others, secured the nomination by Super Tuesday. NAME_4 chose former Secretary of Defense NAME_10 as his running mate, while NAME_6 chose U.S. Senator NAME_11.

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_7's sex scandal with NAME_12 and subsequent impeachment, NAME_6 avoided campaigning with NAME_13. Republicans denounced NAME_13's indiscretions, while NAME_6 criticized NAME_4'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_4 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_4 v. NAME_6, which ended the recount.

The recount having been ended, NAME_4 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_4 victory, whereas a statewide recount would likely have given the state to NAME_6.[6][7] Ultimately, NAME_4 won 271 electoral votes, one vote more than the 270-to-win majority, despite NAME_6 receiving 543,895 more votes (a margin of 0.52% of al Use words with all capital letters to highlight key points, but make sure that words with all capital letters appear less than 4 times
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