WI: 2000 Election: Bush Vs. Trump

In the 2000 election, Donald Trump briefly ran for the reform party nomination against Pat Buchanan but eventually dropped out. What if Trump had instead sought the democratic nomination and gotten it? Would he have a chance against Bush?
 
Trump is, honestly, way too unpredictable to tell. I bet political scholars will be all over the 2016 election for years, perhaps decades.
 
I have a very hard time seeing Trump getting the Dem nomination in 2000. Gore had the party machinery locked up. If there was an opening for this, it was 2004 with DT running on an antiwar platform.
 
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