Presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Falls Church,...

Presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Falls Church, October 25. Buchanan bolted the Republican Party on Monday and took his long-shot presidential bid to the Reform Party. In doing so, Buchanan brushed off concerns by Republican leaders, who fear he may end up drawing votes from the eventual party nominee and help Democrats win the White House next year. He will likely face a highly publicized campaign against New York developer [Donald Trump] for the Reform nomination. Buchanan, 60, who served in the White House under [Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan], charged that the Republican Party had essentially left him by abandoning its core conservative values.