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court decided the recount would not continue. it was over, and bush had won. news that would soon reach republican headquarters in tallahassee. we got a heads up call about ten minutes beforehand that said the opinion s coming. watch your fax machine. fax machine. fax machine. i got a call from austin from governor bush. and i answered the call and said, congratulations, mr. president-elect. [ cheers ] we gathered everybody together. to the next president of the united states everybody fought really hard. they had done an incredible job. it was an incredible setting. and precisely the outcome we had hoped for. you re still emotional thinking i m still emotional, sure. it s just moments of pure joy. or devastation if you worked
withdraw my concession. i mean, hell, his brother was the governor but, you know, he was like my brother and al was like hey. i will never forget his facial expression. he hung up the phone and everybody cheers, and then somebody says, wow, you called jeb bush his little brother. so al says, i didn t call him his little brother, he called him his little brother. as the bush team squirmed in austin, it fell to bill daley to deliver an unprecedented message, that gore had withdrawn his concession. it was 4:00 p.m. and gore said to me, you do it. i said i m not going to do it. forget about it. i m not going to go out there on tv he said, no, you do it. so i thought, oh, my god, i have to do this to a million people worldwide watching this to figure out who is the president of the united states. this race is too close to call and until the recount is concluded and the results in
yes. yes? yes. why? because we had more votes. we just needed to get them counted. the vice president s residence on friday night was a party. everybody was thrilled about the victory in the florida supreme court because we felt that it was the preface to a victory overall because it would give us the recount we wanted. but there was no joy in bushville. excruciating, just excruciating. i just remember thinking it just seemed unfair and arbitrary. it was like being on a treadmill. i mean, we never knew from day to day whether we were going to win or whether we were going to lose. we d lose a case one day, we d win one the next day. as baker had predicted from day one, he would have to look to another court for the final outcome he wanted. we felt that we had sound constitutional arguments in our favor. i think it was probably the biggest disappointment that i
and lieberman fired back. this evening the secretary of state of florida has decided to certify what by any reasonable standard is an incomplete and inaccurate count of the votes cast in the state of florida. part of why i went out clearly was to say to the public, this ain t over yet, you know? it ain t over till it s over. and it wasn t over, just halftime. the democrats went to the friendly state supreme court and won big. the circuit court shall order a manual recount of all under votes. not only did the court deny bush s victory in florida, but it also ordered a new statewide recount of disputed ballots. advantage, gore. did you believe at that point at all that you might win?