Did Gore conceede in 2000?

[sandboxface]

I didn't start paying attention to this stuff until after 911. I read somewhere on DU that Gore conceeded, but then pressed for a recount. Can anyone give me the brief history?

[JI7]

1. yeah, he called Bush to concede on election night, but he retracted

when the vote count kept coming in was turning very close.

[bigwillq]

2. His concession speech was great--

Well not that he conceded but what he said. He showed true class.

[progdonkey]

3. He fully conceded about five weeks after the selection... n/t

[NYCGirl]

4. He conceded 36 days later.

Here's a link to an MP3 of the speech and a transcript. It was brilliant.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/algore2000concessionspeech.html

[robbedvoter]

5. It was actually Ed Rendell - his campaign manager who conceded for him

he was on CNN - and was told of the SCOTUS decision and he blurted: "well, in that case. we'll concede"
I'll never forgive him that.

Also, mind you, pressure on him to do so was pouring from left and right (Robert Reich - another one asking for concession from day one!).
No united left behind him - Nader was cackling and saying "let's toss a coin - they are identical", his followers were laughing it off as it wasn't any of their biswax. Susan Sarandon was making bad jokes about "stupid Palm Beach voters" , Bill Press was laughing on the Spin Room at similar jockes by *ucker Carlson. All the media laughed at him - down to The Onion - that had a headline: Gore demands recount of Supreme court vote"
Freepers camped at his residence: "get out of Cheney's house"
And yet he fought.
Then the left ridiculed him for stopping to fight.
Today, a campaign hack for Kerry assured us that Kerry "won't pull a Gore" - but "will fight for us" Not for the election fraud , mind you, but in his day job that he carefully preserved.
I am getting angry as I write this.

[sandboxface]

10. Thanks...

Not sure if this is over yet. We'll see here in the next couple weeks.

[NYCGirl]

12. That "pull a Gore" reference really pissed me off too, robbedvoter.

Gore was amazingly brave in the face of all that was going on.

[sandboxface]

6. Anyone have an MP3 of Kerry's Concession Speech?

[robbedvoter]

7. See # 4

[sandboxface]

8. That's Gore's speech, now I'm looking for Kerry's, thanks!

[robbedvoter]

9. His website, I think. Or DNC's

[genius]

11. December 12, 2000. 35 days after the election; the night of S Ct Dec

Election night, he called Bush and conceded over phone but was called in limo & told may have won. So then he called W & took back concession before addressing crowd.