"First of all, this is a completely different election from the one 20 years ago," Gore said. "Joe Biden has multiple pathways to secure his victory. And of course, I'm for him and I'm hoping that will be the case very soon. But the most important principle that I defended 20 years ago, that Joe Biden and many others are defending tonight is, let's count every legally cast vote and obey the will of the American people. You know, I looked at the people standing in line to vote in the middle of a pandemic. Some of them waiting in line 10, 11 hours in some cases. And the determination of the American people in spite of the, what they were facing, to have the largest turnout in the entire history of our country, they're heroes and they're redeeming the promise of American."
"I don't remember there being any good legal recourse left," Gore said about 2000. "The governor of the state in question where the ballots were being counted and recounted had an interest in this. There is no intermediate step between a final Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. And the Supreme Court interprets the laws. They issued an opinion. And to run the risk of violence in the streets without any change in the outcome seemed to me to be not in the best interests of the country. I've heard the president say that if he doesn't win, there may be this, that and the other. Nobody should be inciting violence. That's dishonoring the mandate of the American people to make this choice."
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