Editing Joe Lieberman (section)

=== Vice presidential campaign ===
Lieberman's 2000 Senate campaign was concurrent with [[2000 United States presidential election|that year's presidential election]]. In August 2000, Vice President Al Gore announced that he had selected Lieberman as his vice presidential running mate. Lieberman became the first practicing [[Jewish|Jew]] to run for the nation's second-highest office.<ref name=liebermanobs>{{cite news|url=http://www.observer.com/node/43265|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207212923/http://www.observer.com/node/43265|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 7, 2008 |title=Joe Lieberman |access-date=July 15, 2008 |date=August 13, 2000 |newspaper= [[The New York Observer]]}}</ref> Lieberman was selected from a group of potential running mates that reportedly included Senators [[John Kerry]] and [[John Edwards]], the team that would form the Democratic presidential ticket [[2004 United States presidential election|four years later]].<ref name=group>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/09/us/the-2000-campaign-the-selection-in-selecting-a-no-2-no-detail-too-small.html?pagewanted=print |title=The 2000 Campaign: The Selection; In Selecting a No. 2, No Detail Too Small |access-date=July 3, 2008 |date=August 9, 2000 |work=[[The New York Times]] |first1=David |last1=Barstow |first2=Katharine Q. |last2=Seelye |archive-date=July 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728221342/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/09/us/the-2000-campaign-the-selection-in-selecting-a-no-2-no-detail-too-small.html?pagewanted=print |url-status=live }}</ref>

Lieberman had a reputation of being a more ideologically conservative Democrat than Gore.<ref name="sentinel-lieberman-vp">{{cite news |last1=Griffin |first1=Michael |title=GORE TAPS LIEBERMAN FOR TICKET |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2000/08/08/gore-taps-lieberman-for-ticket/ |access-date=March 29, 2024 |work=Orlando Sentinel |date=August 8, 2000 |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329150145/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2000/08/08/gore-taps-lieberman-for-ticket/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Because of Lieberman's criticism of Clinton's personal behavior, some viewed Gore's choice of Lieberman as a way to distance himself from the scandals of the Clinton White House.<ref name=chooses>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/09/us/2000-campaign-vice-president-gore-lieberman-make-tolerance-centerpiece.html?pagewanted=print|title= The 2000 Campaign: The Vice President; Gore and Lieberman Make Tolerance the Centerpiece|access-date= July 3, 2008|last= Sack|first= Kevin|date= August 9, 2000|newspaper= [[The New York Times]]|archive-date= July 28, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230728221341/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/09/us/2000-campaign-vice-president-gore-lieberman-make-tolerance-centerpiece.html?pagewanted=print|url-status= live}}</ref> The Gore–Lieberman ticket was defeated in a hard-fought election that was contested for weeks after the vote. On December 12, a [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruling brought the race to an official end, [[Bush v. Gore|confirming the decision]] in the favor of the [[George W. Bush 2000 presidential campaign|Bush-Cheney]] ticket.<ref name="nyt-obit" />