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In June 2003 Gravel gave a speech on direct democracy at a conference hosted by the American Free Press. The event was cosponsored by the Barnes Review, a journal that endorses Holocaust denial. He later said "You better believe I know that six million Jews were killed. I've been to the Holocaust Museum."  

In June 2003 Gravel gave a speech on direct democracy at a conference hosted by the American Free Press. The event was cosponsored by the Barnes Review, a journal that endorses Holocaust denial. He later said "You better believe I know that six million Jews were killed. I've been to the Holocaust Museum."  

==Presidential campaign==  

==Presidential campaigns==  

On April 16, 2006, Gravel announced his presidential campaign at the National Press Club. He has become known, chiefly among Democrats and independent voters, for his statements of radical commitment to issues ranging from nuclear disarmament, citizen-initiated lawmaking, gay marriage recognition, and the lifting of discrimination against [[gay]]s in the military - to the reorganization of the tax and social security systems in the United States and the immediate cessation of US military involvement in Iraq. In a February 25, 2007 Washington Post/ABC News nationwide poll of voters who lean Democratic, found that Gravel had 0% support for the Democratic presidential nomination. During his primary campaign Gravel has been one of the most critical candidates of his own party, in a nationally syndicated Democrat debate, Gravel stated that the Democrat candidates "scare him."<ref>http://badgerherald.com/oped/2007/05/02/more_stale_rhetoric_.php</ref>

On April 16, 2006, Gravel announced his presidential campaign at the National Press Club. He has become known, chiefly among Democrats and independent voters, for his statements of radical commitment to issues ranging from nuclear disarmament, citizen-initiated lawmaking, gay marriage recognition, and the lifting of discrimination against [[gay]]s in the military - to the reorganization of the tax and social security systems in the United States and the immediate cessation of US military involvement in Iraq. In a February 25, 2007 Washington Post/ABC News nationwide poll of voters who lean Democratic, found that Gravel had 0% support for the Democratic presidential nomination. During his primary campaign Gravel has been one of the most critical candidates of his own party, in a nationally syndicated Democrat debate, Gravel stated that the Democrat candidates "scare him."<ref>http://badgerherald.com/oped/2007/05/02/more_stale_rhetoric_.php</ref>

He has received no delegates so far in the primaries and has endorsed [[Jesse Johnson]] for the nomination of the [[Green Party]].<ref>http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/12/democratic-candidate-gravel-endorses-green-party-presidential-hopeful/</ref>  He also left the Democratic race to try to become a candidate for the [[Libertarian Party]] nomination.<ref>http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/26/gravel-joins-libertarian-party-presidential-prospects-unknown/</ref>

He has received no delegates so far in the primaries and has endorsed [[Jesse Johnson]] for the nomination of the [[Green Party]].<ref>http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/12/democratic-candidate-gravel-endorses-green-party-presidential-hopeful/</ref>  He also left the Democratic race to try to become a candidate for the [[Libertarian Party]] nomination.<ref>http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/26/gravel-joins-libertarian-party-presidential-prospects-unknown/</ref>

He is running again in 2020 on a [[socialist]], anti-American platform.

Gravel is running again in 2020 on a [[socialist]], anti-American platform.

==Criticism==

==Criticism==