Originally Posted by Taichiliberal:
A clarification:
The 1988 presidential campaign of David Duke, Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and notable perennial candidate, was formally launched on June 8, 1987, as Duke announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 1988 presidential election.
After failing to gain traction in the Democratic primaries despite a victory in the 1988 New Hampshire Vice-Presidential primary he switched and became the candidate for the Populist Party.
President George H. W. Bush was challenged by conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, and during the early counting of the votes at the New Hampshire primary, it appeared that the President might actually lose. However, Buchanan faded by the end of the evening, and Bush won all the rest of the primaries. Bush's margins in many of the primaries were not as large as expected, and led to the rise of Ross Perot as an independent candidate.
Republican Louisiana State Representative and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke also ran in a number of primaries, but he did not receive any delegates. Former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota also made a quixotic bid for support in the Minnesota primary, winning enough votes to entitle him to one delegate, but was later denied his single vote by machinations at the Minnesota Republican Party's 1992 state convention.
Here's an on record take of Dump's true feelings regarding Duke's political career:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...duke-1991.html