the election of 2000 was something more than that because in addition to the suspense and the suspense was enormous, maybe more than we ve ever had before on television because of how close the race was. we re going to now project an important win for vice president al gore. nbc news projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of florida. it s really hard to cover an election that close and feel the pressure of, a, getting it on quickly, and, b, getting it right.
while longer until we hear from george w. bush and vice president al gore. al gore s campaign strategist rushes to warn him not to concede. the only thing you could do because the vice president wasn t answering his phone was call david moorehouse. so the car pulls up. gore gets out. he said, i m going straight to the stage. david said, no, we have to go to the holding room. carter and bob said we have to go to the holding room. i arrived breathless in the holding room as he was wrapping
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 difference. one of the things i ve seen in over 30 years in this business is things move so fast. today it s george w. bush s past that s being looked at. in the final frenzied push to
investments are safe bets now? certainly not internet stocks. there was this enormous snowball effect. 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.
you can see the lines of people waiting to vote. nothing is easy for governor george w. bush of texas or vice president al gore. wow, that was fast. look at that. november 7th, 2000, an election day like no other begins. among the high profile races, the first lady of the united states, new york senator. hillary clinton s run has been full of twists and turns. since the beginning of the campaign, her expected opponent was rudy giuliani, but six months prior to the election he drops a bombshell. when i was first told i had cancer, i thought this was going to be a much easier decision. in giuliani s place steps rick lazio, a moderate congressman from long island. today, i announce i m a candidate for united states senate from new york. at the time, it was a remarkable campaign not just because the first lady was running for the senate, but also because it was at that point the most expensive senate campaign in all of history. i m willing to say we will neither raise