"I believe I climbed every step on the political ladder, from precinct captain to field director to campaign manager," she says. "I reached my goal of making it to the top."
The Election That Never Ended
While Brazile says she would have managed a presidential campaign for Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) if he had run, she says she immediately jumped onto the Gore campaign team when the position was offered to her.
"It was like a proposal," Brazile says of Gore's offer. "He held my hand and looked in my eyes and asked me if I would be willing to go down to Tennessee to run his campaign."
Brazile agreed, and after a long campaign season, the Gore-Lieberman ticket went into Election Night on Nov. 7 in a virtual deadlock in the polls with Bush-Cheney, with most analysts as well as the American public unsure of what the outcome would be.
Brazile says the day started out rougher than most, with the campaign ending a final 24-hour swing through several key states-including Florida-before settling in Nashville.
As state returns began coming in, Brazile says that the first projection of Florida going to Gore gave the campaign an immediate boost.
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