Reform Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2000

- In the 1996 election, the Reform party had nominated Ross Perot for president, and Pat Buchanan had run for and lost the nomination of the Republican Party. In 2000, Buchanan ran for the Reform Party nomination. A faction of Reform Party supporters who did not agree with some of Buchanan's views tried to nominate John Hagelin, the candidate for the United States Natural Law Party. The Reform Party convention ended with the Hagelin supporters walking out and conducting a parallel convention. Eventually, the results of a lawsuit decided that Buchanan's faction was the true Reform Party and thus entitled to public financing due to Perot's showing in the previous election.