June 16, 1999:
Vice President Al Gore officially launches his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in his Tennessee hometown of Carthage.
Polls show Gore with a clear lead over his only Democratic rival, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey. But they also show him badly trailing the Republican front-runner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
As a first-term senator, Gore also ran for president in 1988, but he withdrew from the race after a poor showing in the New York primary.
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