“What Lies Beneath" is a 2000 horror film starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Today we examine what lies beneath the 2024 drama that now stars former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Indeed, subterranean factors could prove the difference in the presidential election — an unusual and widely unknown factor. Nobody who was looking at the 2000 election — which came more than three months after the launch of "What Lies Beneath" — would have predicted that complex ballot sheets in Florida, plus the presence of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader on ballots in Florida and New Hampshire, would send the contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore into 36 days of agonizing overtime — or that the outcome of the election would be determined by the Supreme Court.
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