Celebrity roast ralph nader biography campaign

American political campaign

The 2000 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney, began on February 21, 2000.

Celebrity roast ralph nader biography campaign

He cited "a crisis of democracy" as motivation to run.^[1] He ran in the 2000 United States presidential election as the nominee of the Green Party. He was also nominated by the Vermont Progressive Party^[2] and the United Citizens Party of South Carolina.^[3] The campaign marked Nader's second presidential bid as the Green nominee, and his third overall, having run as a write-incampaign in 1992 and a passive campaign on the Green ballot line in 1996.

Nader's vice presidential running mate was Winona LaDuke, an environmental activist and member of the Ojibwe tribe of Minnesota.

Nader appeared on the ballot in 43 states and DC, up from 22 in 1996. He received 2,882,955 votes, or 2.74 percent of the popular vote.

His campaign did not attain the 5 percent