The 1996 United States presidential election happened on November 5, 1996. During that day the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States were selected. President Bill Clinton and his running mate, Vice President Al Gore, were reelected to a second term. They defeated the Republican ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for president and former congressman and ex-Cabinet Secretary Jack Kemp of New York for Vice President. Businessman Ross Perot ran as the candidate for the Reform Party with economist Pat Choate as his running mate; he received less media attention and was excluded from the presidential debates and, while still obtaining substantial results for a third-party candidate, by U.S. standards, did not renew his success in the 1992 election.