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Gore rules out presidential bid | Gore rules out presidential bid |
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Former US Vice-President Al Gore has ruled out again making a late entry into the 2008 presidential race. | |
In an interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK, he said he would not make a fresh bid for the White House. | |
Mr Gore told NRK he wanted to focus on his climate change campaigning, which won him a Nobel Peace Prize last week. | Mr Gore told NRK he wanted to focus on his climate change campaigning, which won him a Nobel Peace Prize last week. |
Mr Gore, the beaten Democratic candidate in the 2000 election, had repeatedly stated he had no interest in standing again for president. | |
But a national organisation which has campaigned for him to stand once more for the White House said traffic on its website had surged in the wake of his Nobel triumph. | |
'Climate crisis' | |
Mr Gore told NRK it was a "great honour" to be awarded the prize for his climate campaigning. | |
Asked how it would affect his political future, he replied: "I don't have plans to be a candidate again so I don't really see it in that context at all. | |
"I'm involved in another kind of campaign. It's a global campaign to change the way people think about the climate crisis." | |
On Tuesday, the Draft Gore organisation said it had gathered 200,000 signatures. | |
Mr Gore was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. | |
The 59-year-old won an Oscar for his 2006 documentary climate change film An Inconvenient Truth. | |
Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton, wife of ex-US president Bill Clinton, is the current Democratic front-runner for 2008. |
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