The assertion from Chris LaCivita at a Politico event is notable given former President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.
No, “Hanging Chad”, and the idiocy to preserve norms and just concede instead of challenging the election results in Florida and other states is how GBJ got into office.
Abruptly ending the counting was a predicate for all of that.
Remember that Trump had a 150,000 vote lead when he tried to shut down the recount in Pennsylvania. And that state ended up +80,000 for Biden. Florida came down to just above 400 votes before the riot shut down the ballot counting process.
327 votes, actually, but that just makes your point stronger. If they hadn’t stopped the recount with a riot (and also a friendly Florida AG and friendly US Supreme Court), there’s no such thing as President George W Bush.
No, “Hanging Chad”, and the idiocy to preserve norms and just concede instead of challenging the election results in Florida and other states is how GBJ got into office.
Abruptly ending the counting was a predicate for all of that.
Remember that Trump had a 150,000 vote lead when he tried to shut down the recount in Pennsylvania. And that state ended up +80,000 for Biden. Florida came down to just above 400 votes before the riot shut down the ballot counting process.
327 votes, actually, but that just makes your point stronger. If they hadn’t stopped the recount with a riot (and also a friendly Florida AG and friendly US Supreme Court), there’s no such thing as President George W Bush.
Gore’s campaign didn’t have to reject Jesse Jackson’s people who were protesting on their behalf like they did, but they did at least challenge the results by litigating them all the way up to the supreme court. Of course, the problem is that the supreme court sucks.