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Bush v. Gore didn’t overturn anything

By Timothy P. Carney
Published November 11, 2020 5:07pm ET
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Bush v. Gore didn’t overturn anything
Without the media’s intrusion into the voting in the Panhandle, it is likely that there never would have been a 36-day Florida recount, or for that matter, a Bush v. Gore. (AP Images)

Once again, the loser of a presidential election is challenging the results and going to court, and so our thoughts go back to the last time this happened: in 2000, when election loser Al Gore tried to overturn the results in Florida so as to give him enough electors to win the presidency.

Yet some commentators, even those who were around during 2000, have a distorted memory of the whole thing. The most distorted came from Joy Reid of MSNBC in a tweet widely mocked for other reasons:

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