An inconvenient fact-check of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth on its 20th anniversary

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The night and early morning of Nov. 7 and 8, 2000, is one that serves as a true inflection point for the United States. The time was around 7:50 p.m. Eastern, and all the major networks called Florida for Vice President Al Gore, effectively handing him the election with 272 electoral votes.

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