A household assertion mentioned the four-term senator and vice presidential candidate died from issues after a fall.
Joe Lieberman, Al Gore’s working mate through the hotly contested 2000 presidential election, has died at age 82 after struggling issues from a fall.
United States media introduced his loss of life on Tuesday afternoon, citing a household assertion.
One of many few high-profile independents within the US political sphere, Lieberman largely caucused with the Democrat Celebration throughout his 4 phrases as a senator, representing the state of Connecticut.
However he recognized as a centrist, and in the direction of the tip of his profession, he embraced the No Labels motion, an organisation that shirks the standard two-party system in favour of “frequent floor”.
Lieberman, nonetheless, was a part of the Democratic presidential ticket in 2000, when Gore — then-vice president underneath Invoice Clinton — raced for the White Home himself.
When Gore selected Lieberman as his vice presidential candidate, the senator grew to become the primary Jewish working mate to signify a significant occasion within the normal elections.
The choice additionally catapulted Lieberman into some of the divisive presidential races in current historical past. The Gore-Lieberman ticket gained the favored vote — but it surely misplaced the essential Electoral Faculty, the metric the US makes use of to determine who wins the presidency.
As an alternative, Republican George W Bush emerged victorious in that race, after the US Supreme Courtroom dominated to finish a recount effort within the pivotal swing state of Florida. An estimated 537 votes separated Bush and Gore within the state.
Lieberman’s profession in nationwide politics, nonetheless, got here to an finish in 2006, when he misplaced the Democratic main for the US Senate in Connecticut. On the time, he confronted sturdy criticism for his hawkish strategy to the US’s warfare in Iraq.
He has, nonetheless, continued to train affect as a political lobbyist, lawyer and advocate for teams like No Labels.
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