Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died in New York City after suffering complications from a fall at his home Stamford, Connecticut, his family said. He was 82.
Lieberman served four terms in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 2013 and was Al Gore’s vice presidential running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish person nominated as vice president on a major party ticket.
In 2004, he mounted an unsuccessful bid for Democratic presidential nomination. Two years later, Lieberman left the party to run as an independent after losing the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. He pulled off the victory in the general election and retired from the upper chamber in 2013.
Lieberman was a hawkish figure on foreign policy, having supported the Iraq war and other overseas military ventures. Last year, he called on the U.S. to bomb Iran.
In 2008, he endorsed Republican John McCain for president and even delivered a speech supporting McCain at the Republican National Convention that year.
Lieberman remained politically active after leaving Congress and was co-chair of the centrist organization No Labels. Occasionally, he appeared on cable news. Last week, he appeared on Your World on Fox News and criticized Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for calling for new elections in Israel over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war on Gaza.
“It is outrageous,” he declared.
The former senator also expressed his desire to see a Republican and Democrat run on a presidential “bipartisan unity ticket” in 2024.
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