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===Final campaigns=== In 1982, McCarthy [[United States Senate election in Minnesota, 1982|ran for his old Senate seat]] but lost the Democratic primary to businessman [[Mark Dayton]], 69% to 24%. In the [[1988 United States presidential election|1988 election]], McCarthy appeared on the ballot as the presidential candidate of a handful of left-wing state parties, specifically the Consumer parties in [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New Jersey]] and the [[Minnesota Progressive Party]] in Minnesota. In his campaign, he supported trade [[protectionism]], Reagan's [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] and the abolition of the [[two-party system]].<ref name = Cline>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/11mccarthy.html|work= The New York Times|title=Eugene J. McCarthy, Senate Dove Who Jolted '68 Race, Dies at 89|first=Francis X.|last=Cline|date=December 11, 2005|access-date=January 29, 2016|page = A1|url-access = limited}}</ref> He received 30,905 votes.<ref name=USAtlas88>{{cite web|url=http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1988&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0|first=David|last=Leip|work=Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|title= 1988 Presidential General Election Results|date=2005}}</ref> In 1992, returning to the Democratic Party, he entered the New Hampshire presidential primary and campaigned for the [[1992 United States presidential election|Democratic nomination]], but was excluded from the first televised debate. Along with other candidates who had been excluded from the 1992 Democratic debates (including two-time [[New Alliance Party]] presidential candidate [[Lenora Fulani]], former [[Irvine, California]] mayor [[Larry Agran]], ''[[Billy Jack]]'' actor [[Tom Laughlin]], and others), McCarthy staged protests and took unsuccessful legal action in an attempt to be included in the debates. Unlike the other excluded candidates, McCarthy was a longstanding national figure and had mounted credible campaigns for president in previous elections. He won 108,679 votes in the 1992 primaries. In his campaign for the Democratic nomination, McCarthy proposed the use of import fees to help Japan and Western Europe pay for military security and raise taxes on the wealthy in order to eliminate the national debt.<ref name=USAtlas92>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?f=1&year=1992&elect=1|first=David|last=Leip|work=Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|title=1992 Presidential General Election Results|date=2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-02-24-9201180021-story.html|title=MINNESOTA'S OLD POLS JUST KEEP RUNNING AND RUNNING AND RUNNING|website=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=February 24, 1992 }}</ref>
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