like a man and say we re waiting for the recount? but there was a great moment where bush says, my brother says i won. i don t think your broer gets to decide if you re president of the united states. the secretary of state has al gore trailing the president elect in the state proved to be pivotal by 565 votes. and there are some votes that s not even a wide spot in the road. and there are still some votes that have not been counted. just a couple hours ago, the tv networks called this race for governor bush. it now appears that their call was premature. so when the networks called florida for george bush, the margin as we left the headquarters was about 50,000 votes. by the next morning, the margin was 1200 votes with 6 million votes being cast. that was certainly within the range of an automatic recount in florida. i remember telling my wife that
what happened in 2000 with the presidency of the united states coming down to the state of florida was something nobody could see. totally unanticipated and probably will be unique in our history. in a country of more than 275 million people, the presidency may be settled by a few hundred votes and no one is just sure when. these voters want a new election. election day headlines of voter fraud, hanging chads, and dubious results will continue to dominate the news for weeks to come. we knew there were issues in florida. i don t think at the time we had any idea the u.s. supreme court would determine who the president was going to be. i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. what happened to al gore is a once in a million kind of thing. thank you, thank you, thank you, and god bless you all. thank you and good nig
after all of the shouting and all of the scandal, we can begin again. drive into the future with the democrats going in the right direction. by this time tomorrow, the candidates will be back in their home states waiting for the results, but until then it is a nonstop day campaigning the battleground states. it was becoming clearer and clearer that this was going to be a closed race. pushing signs rapidly. they re going out in truckloads. let s not forget it wasn t just bush and gore. let s have affordable tax cuts for middle-class working families. hillary clinton was running for u.s. senate. another headline would have been the death of a senate candidate, a governor, three weeks before the election. there s just so much going on. your vote is going to make a
basically, you had one of many that were rapidly closing their doors. out of the hundreds of tech company ipos that existed by 1999, only one in six would still be in existence two years later. whoever wins the presidential election is destined to inherit the fallout of the dot-com bubble. but a clear winner has yet to emerge. it s already clear here at 7:30 eastern time in new york that the road to 270 electoral votes for either george w. bush or al gore will be long and torturous before this evening is out. connecticut no surprise, al gore. kansas, the projected winner is texas governor george w. bush. texas, george w. bush is the winner there. every election is good television because it is the suspense program. the election of 2000 was something more than that because in addition to the suspense and the suspense was enormous,
point. an important win for vice president al gore. nbc news projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of florida. that is a very, very, very important state for al gore, and now the pressure is on george w. bush. florida is called for vice president al gore and gore s march to the white house picks up momentum. that sent a little bit of a shock wave of panic through the headquarters. karl rove to his credit recognized that there was something wrong with the results. and i d also suggest that florida has been prematurely called. first of all, i thought it was a little bit irresponsible of the networks to call it before the polls closed in the western part of florida. as the day progressed on november 7th, you got nothing but good news. florida, pennsylvania, and michigan in his column. we had set up a speech prep room for al gore to practice his victory speech. i told eli addy, who was the speech writer, that we also needed the alternative version. as th