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FACT CHECK: What's Happening In This Election Is Not Like Florida In 2000

President Trump is challenging the results of the presidential election, which his allies have compared to the contested race 20 years ago. But there are many differences between the two.

Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election Saturday morning.

And yet, President Trump has not conceded or accepted it, and the agency responsible for doling out funds and office space during a transition is denying that money to the Biden team, implying the results of the election are not yet certain and referencing the "precedent" of the contested 2000 presidential election.

Allies of the president, including the and , have also referenced the contest between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush as a need

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