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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (24668)	12/13/2000 10:59:53 AM
From: abstract	Respond to of 65232

Gore Decides To Drop Out of Race The Associated Press Dec 13 2000 10:27AM WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore, his legal fight lost, has decided to drop out of the fiercely contested presidential race with Republican George W. Bush, The Associated Press has learned. The two-term Texas governor is set to become America's 43rd president. Two senior advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gore will drop out of the race in the address Wednesday night. ``The race is over,'' said one official who had talked to Gore Wednesday morning. ``We're done.'' Gore made the decision 12 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his bid to recount thousands of ballots in Florida and overturn official results of the state's presidential race. With that, America's closest presidential election in 124 years ended on its 36th tumultuous day. ``The vice president has directed the recount committee to suspend activities,'' campaign chairman William Daley said in a written statement issued 12 hours after the Supreme Court closed the door to further recounts in Florida's contested election. Bush was in Texas, savoring his hard-earned triumph in private, as if to give Gore all the room he needed for a graceful exit. . . . Members of Gore's own party urged him to concede the race, but the vice president went to bed Tuesday night without telling aides what he would do. After meeting with his wife Tipper and several advisers, Daley among them, Gore authorized the statement on Wednesday saying he would not press the recount any further for Florida's pivotal 25 electoral votes. Aides said the vice president intended to telephone Bush, probably before his address. Democratic aides were talking with the TV networks about broadcast time.