Sosok.ID – Twenty years ago, the election for President of the United States in Florida was in turmoil.
Quoted from Wikipedia.org, the Democratic candidate, Al Gore and the Republican candidate George W. Bush when it was competing for power.
The 2000 election results, however, were not known for more than a month after the elections were over.
Because the recalculation process took a very long time, and even ended in the Bush vs Gore case in the United States Supreme Court.
In the end Bush won by a narrow margin.
On the evening of November 7, 2000, Al Gore made two phone calls to George W. Bush.
The first is to recognize the presidential election. The second, an hour later, was to withdraw the concession.
The race has reached the most volatile of the states, and only a few hundred votes separate the fate of the candidates.
“My younger brother told me that we will definitely bring (victory) in Florida,” the Republican presidential candidate told his Democratic rival on the phone. ABC.
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