“They did the same thing with Gore and he lost...30 some days after the election.”
“With the 2000 election in dispute, the General Services Administration was not allowing use of designated office space in Washington: The Justice Department opined that under law, funds couldn’t be used to help “multiple transition teams.”
“Gore conceded the race on Dec. 13, 2000.
Soon after, GSA authorized the Bush team’s use of transition funds and office space on G Street Northwest in Washington. The Justice Department later allowed Bush’s transition team to be reimbursed costs incurred during the five-week period before the election was decided, according to a 2001”
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At that time of disputing the vote Gore had conceeded to Bush but then too it back......the Republican Party then conducted a nationwide PR campaign that Gore was a pathetic sore loser who simply would not accept that he’d been defeated. Much of the national media adopted this frame and pushed it.... Just as we see the Demorats doing now against Trump.
On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court rejected Gore’s request for a hand recount in four counties. Instead, it ordered a ‘statewide hand recount’ of undervotes, with the decisions being made according to the “intent of the voter.”
The U.S. Supreme Court then ‘halted’ this recount on December 12, declaring that since different Florida counties used different voting methods, the voter intent standard violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
Gore could theoretically have asked the Florida Supreme Court to order a statewide recount with more explicit standards. But he took the advice of one of his lawyers, who told him that this would “cause a tremendous uproar.”
Thus, Gore conceded to Bush a second time..