June 20,1999: Vice President Gore has cancer

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On June 20, 1999, Vice President Al Gore announced that he has been diagnosed with Bladder cancer. He said in the announcement that he will not be running for president in 2000. Before this he was widely expected to run for the Democratic nomination with little opposition.


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June 27, 1999- July 5, 1999

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June 27, 1999: Ted Kennedy declares he is running for president stating "I'm running for president because I believe that it's a travesty that America doesn't guarantee health care to all it's citizens".

July 4, 1999: Colin Powell declares his bid for president saying "We need a president that knows the burden of a great power is to provide democracy to the oppressed people's of the world".
 
The Full List of Candidates

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(I realized it would take forever If i made an update with each announcement so I decided to jump ahead and put out the whole list right now.)



Democratic:Howard Dean,Ted Kennedy,Jesse Jackson,Evan Bayh,Dick Gephardt, and Bob Kerrey



Republican:Colin Powell,Elizabeth Dole,Lamar Alexander, Christine Todd Whitman, and Alan Keyes
 

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Why would Ted Kennedy, who would be practically 70 at the time of the next inauguration, run for president?
He's pissed off about the failure of healthcare reform besides he will be dropping out soon with the amount of liberals running for the nomination.
 
The Attacks

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July 29, 1999: Alan Keyes releases an attack ad which showed the graphic process of a partial birth abortion in order to attack Colin Powell and Christine Whitman.

Later that day Keyes would say "It dosent surprise me that the Democratic Party a party that supports the murderous policy of abortion has allowed Ted Kennedy a murderer to continue to be a candidate."
 
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