Gore: 'Take it from me, every vote counts'

Former presidential candidate Al Gore made his pitch to voters on Monday at a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Colorado.

“Take it from me, every vote counts. Trust me on this,” he said with a chuckle to thunderous applause in Boulder. “You can consider me an exhibit A of that proposition. Every single vote counts.”


Bill Clinton's former vice president went on to remind his audience that the 2000 election which he narrowly lost to George W. Bush, despite winning the popular vote, was one of the closest elections in U.S. history.

“Do not, please, put yourself in a position where you look back on this election, years from now and say, ‘that was the hinge of history, and I could have potentially made all of the difference,’” he pleaded.

He went on to argue that an election is not just a race between two people, but a choice between “two different governing philosophies.”

In addition to his emphasis on the importance of voting, Gore spent much of his speech arguing that this is a “climate election.”

“Yes, we really do have to change,” Gore answered to his own question of whether the world needs to move away from fossil fuels for energy.

He praised the recent Paris agreement as a solid start, but maintained that more must be done, pitching a Clinton presidency as the extra push that the climate change issue needs.

“You could say, actually, this election means the world, because in a real sense, it does,” Gore said. “[Hillary Clinton] understands that we can change and she has put forward a smart and ambitious plan to greatly increase the momentum of renewable energy and shift us toward that net emissions-free world that we’re aiming toward.”