This Day in History: <br />Al Gore Concedes <br />Presidential Election December 13, <br />2000 The Vice President <br />conceded defeat to <br />Texas Governor George W. Bush. His concession followed <br />weeks of legal battles <br />over the recounting <br />of votes in Florida. In a televised speech, Gore said that <br />though he disagreed with the Supreme <br />Court verdict that ended his campaign, <br />”partisan rancor must now be put aside.” Gore had won the <br />national popular vote <br />by more than 500,000 votes. But his narrow loss of <br />Florida gave the Electoral <br />College to Bush, 271 to 266. A little more than an hour later, <br />Bush addressed the nation <br />for the first time as president-elect.
