Bob Dole death: Former Republican presidential candidate and long-serving senator dies, aged 98

Former Sen Bob Dole, the longtime Republican politician who ran for president and vice president amid decades of service in DC, died on Sunday.

A statement from the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, the organisation founded by his wife, stated that Mr Dole had died “peacefully” in his sleep. He was 98.

“It is with heavy hearts we announce that Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep. At his death, at age 98, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 79 years,” said the group in a brief statement released on Twitter.

Mr Dole drew distinction among members of the GOP establishment by being the only living former GOP presidential candidate to endorse former President Donald Trump for both his 2016 and 2020 bids for the White House. Despite his longstanding support for Mr Trump and the latter’s rightward shift of the GOP, Mr Dole did not embrace the false claims of widespread fraud shared by Mr Trump and others in his party after the 2020 election.

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