We also had Pataki, but the media deliberately ignored him because he was the least awful Republican. It was pretty blatant that the media was intentionally trying to sabotage the Republicans by only covering the orangutan so that come the election, the Republican nominee would be constantly attacked with "hey your party is the party with the orangutan in it". But since the orangutan was the ONLY Republican getting any coverage, they nominated it...
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We also had Pataki, but the media deliberately ignored him because he was the least awful Republican. It was pretty blatant that the media was intentionally trying to sabotage the Republicans by only covering the orangutan so that come the election, the Republican nominee would be constantly attacked with "hey your party is the party with the orangutan in it". But since the orangutan was the ONLY Republican getting any coverage, they nominated it...