WI 9/11 happens exactly a year earlier

What if 9/11 happened on 9/11/2000? How would Bill Clinton respond? How would it affect Gore vs. Bush? What would Gore and Bush say?
 
You could argue two things:

  1. Clinton gets a "rally around the flag effect" like Bush did OTL resulting in soaring approval ratings and Gore wins the election in a landslide, possibly winning a Democratic Congress with it.
  2. Clinton's poll numbers take a nose dive as the public sees Clinton as a President that failed to keep the nation safe with Bush and the GOP leading the Charge, resulting in Bush winning the election in a landslide and the GOP winning big in Congress.

In either case, Clinton will most likely got to war With Afghanistan before leaving office, although if given the power, I personally don't think he'd go in as lightly as Bush did OTL. If Gore wins, policy in Afghanistan stays the same and we avoid a war with Iraq. If Bush wins, we're bound to see some changes in policy in Afghanistan and will still probably see a war in Iraq.
 
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