2024-03-28T05:19:33+00:00
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/ Former US Senator and former vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Get together in 2000, Joe Lieberman, died (Wednesday evening), on the age of 82 in New York after struggling issues on account of stumbling in his dwelling, based on his household.
“His beloved spouse Hadassah and relations had been with him when he died,” the household assertion stated.
Lieberman was the Democratic Get together’s nominee for vp within the 2000 elections, which Republican George W. Bush received over Democrat El Gore.
He failed in his bid to acquire the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, influenced by his assist for the Iraq Warfare.
Lieberman was elected to the Senate for the primary time in 1988. He misplaced within the Democratic Get together primaries in 2006 however retained his seat by profitable the overall election as an unbiased candidate.
Lieberman endorsed Republican Senator John McCain for president in a speech on the 2008 Republican Nationwide Conference.
However he later supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden within the 2020 presidential race, each from the Democratic Get together.
Lieberman retired from the Senate in 2013 after 4 six-year phrases.