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3:57 a.m. - 4:15 a.m. November 8, 2000: Networks Again Classify Florida as ‘Too Close to Call’

2000-11-08

The four news networks, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and NBC News, retract their earlier projection that Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush has won Florida and thereby won the US presidency (see 2:15 a.m. November 8, 2000). The state is again rated as “too close to call.” [Leip, 2008]