Jack Kemp was Bob Dole’s official running mate in 1996. But Newt Gingrich was more useful to Democrats, so we did everything we could to run against “Dole/Gingrich” instead of “Dole/Kemp”
The "Dole/Gingrich" campaign was extraordinarily effective for Democrats, and Bill Clinton was re-elected with 379 electoral votes after being counted out the year before.