Perot in a sentence

For Bush to earn a majority of the popular vote, he would have needed 12.2% of Perot's 18.9% of the vote, 65% of Perot's support base.

The race narrowed, as Perot's numbers significantly improved as Clinton's numbers declined, while Bush's numbers remained more or less the same from earlier in the race citation as Perot and Bush began to hammer at Clinton on character issues once again.

He benefited from the presence of Ross Perot, the feisty third-party candidate who spent most of his time attacking Bush.

He won the general election with 45.5%, the lowest showing for any Republican presidential nominee in Utah since 1992, when George H.W. Bush won a three-way race against Bill Clinton and Ross Perot.

Nonetheless, Perot failed to garner a plurality of votes in any single state, something no third party has done since 1968.

RFK Jr. would have the likeliest appeal to libertarians not as Trump’s VP, or a mere spite candidate like Ross Perot, but as a third-party candidate given Trump’s head will be figuratively held on the chopping block by Democrats until after the election.

Ross Perot and Ralph Nader are two of the most notable examples of third-party candidates seen as playing deciding factors in elections.

In 1992, Patrick Buchanan’s briefly threatened to derail George H.W. Bush’s nomination, and the rise of Ross Perot signaled that populism was still a potent force in American politics.

In 1992, Ross Perot beat incumbent George Bush and Bill Clinton in a presidential debate, but Bill Clinton won the presidency.

In the end, Bill Clinton won the election, and third-party candidate Perot had a big say in the result as he took 18.9 per cent of the national vote.

Most analyses from that election show, however, that Perot took "somewhat equally from both major party candidates" and suggests most of his supporters likely would not have voted at all had he not been on the ballot, Neiheisel told Salon.

President George H.W. Bush was criticized for looking down at his watch during the 1992 trilateral debate with Democrat Bill Clinton and independent candidate Ross Perot.

Ross Perot did it anyway in 1992 and, surprisingly, polled exceptionally well against the two major party candidates, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

The election before that, Bill Clinton was dead last in Dixville, getting beat by George H. W. Bush, Ross Perot, and Andre Marrou, even though Clinton won.

After Ross Perot and the current "stable genius," we haven't learned our lesson?

After two years at a junior college, Perot earned an appointment to the Naval Academy.

Also, I think Ross Perot died the same day.

But it was Perot’s foray into politics that has had lasting impact.

It was classic Ross Perot—less a defining moment than a continuation of his commitment to doing what he knew to be right and needed to be done, in spite of obstacles that kept others from acting.

NTT Data acquired the sprawling complex in 2016 when it bought the former Perot Systems IT services operation from Austin-based Dell in a deal valued at more than $3 billion.