Without a recount? There were plenty of recounts. Gore lost them all.
..........the USSC stopped the recount----which was then in progress........
Gore was gonna count, recount and re-recount specific districts, til they had the votes they needed to win in those specific districts......it's an old Dim trick.
The Daley Family Vote Mfg Co was waiting for the votes to show up in used Chicago deep-dish pizza boxes.
And don't forget that it was an AP writer who originally goaded Gore into challenging the vote count in FLA. Such was, and is the hatred of the MSM media for Bush.
There was the original recount of the original count. Then a recount of the recount. Then a recount of that and then selected recounts in Dem strongholds, with election officals trying to 'divine' voter intent from ballots rejected by the machines. It was voting in la-la land! Incidentally, these were all initiated by Gore - he could have stopped it at any time. GWB, as the winner, could not stop the recounting of the recounted votes.