Hey Nixon gave in as well. However he did come back and paid dearly for the privilege.
Ashcroft didn’t even challenge his own defeat by a dead man.
Ford gave in, too. I never liked the guy but he shouldn’t have caved. Again, maybe this is just to convince us that our votes really count. The Florida recount got us all stirred up about “one vote”. My “one vote” only counts 1/5th of 5 votes stuffed into the ballot box.