He had the most votes No, he rigged the polls in Florida, in cohoots with his brother, Jeb, Katherine Harris, and others. They fraudulently blacklisted 50,000 black people as "felons", and the majority of them were Gore supporters.That's grounds for impeachment and imprisonment, not to mention his crimes while in office.
He won by winning more electoral votes. He had 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266. The issue was the supreme court awarded him Florida's 25 electoral votes.
Actually it was the supreme court
He won the electoral vote.
He won the electoral vote.
Florida. Florida, decided by a mere 537 votes, was the closest state of the 2000 presidential election, and it gave George Bush his win.
George W. Bush was the US President on 9/11/01 when the tragedy occurred. His handling of the events were given general approval and helped him win re-election .
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney received 271 electoral votes in 2000 after their win in Florida in the closest election in modern history.
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The one with Al Gore, and Bush.
George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election by a close margin against Democratic candidate Vice President Al Gore. Although it was close, the irony one irony in the election was that Vice President Gore did not win in his home state of Tennessee. In 2004, Bush won his second term against Democratic candidate John Kerry.
Bush won the electoral vote despite losing the national popular vote. George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 (50.5%) electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 (49.5%) electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 (50.3%) and Bush 50,456,062 (49.7%). Green Party candidate Ralph Nader won 2,882,955 popular votes. Nader did not receive any electoral votes.
The majority of American public voted for him.
Yes, the election was very close. Gore won the popular vote total by more than 450,000 votes, but Bush won 5 more electoral votes to win the election. The was a big dispute over the vote count in Florida where Bush won by 512 votes out of 2.9 million and so gained 25 electoral votes.
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore won the popular vote, but he did not win the presidency because George W. Bush won the electoral vote.