The United States Presidential election, 2000, was a Democratic election held in the United States to decide the nation's next president. Popular Socialist and incumbent President Tom Harkin was term limited and unable to run for a third term. He had helped the the United States following the bloody wars of the 1980s with the two breakaway republics in the United States, the Republic of New England and the Republic of the Pacific. During those times, two different right-wing leaders lead America, and it became some of the worst days in the United States since the Great Depression.