In 1992 thete were 3 presidential candidates each of about one-third of the vote according to the polls, Bush Clinton and Perot.
Perot dropped out just before the Democratic Convention leaving all his supporters looking for a candidate. Bill Clinton did an excellent job speaking and picked up a large amount of the Perot supporters.
Several years later United States government made a large land purchase in Texas for over a billion dollars which happened to be owned by a mr. Ross Perot