As of Wednesday morning, NBC News remains the only major news organization to project Dr. Abdul El-Sayed as the winner of Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary. The Associated Press, Reuters and other major outlets have not yet called the race, and no candidate has conceded. In an email from El-Sayed’s campaign that went out at 7:41 a.m. this morning, they are also declaring victory.

The current situation has some political observers recalling NBC’s infamous 2000 Florida call and wondering whether its projection in Michigan will earn a similar place in the annals of political history and become another embarrassing election-night misfire – the kind of mistake that becomes the punchline of political jokes for years to come.

On Election Night in 2000, NBC was the first network to project that Al Gore had won Florida – a call quickly echoed by other major networks. It was wrong. The projection was later withdrawn, touching off one of the most chaotic election nights in American history before the presidency ultimately went to George W. Bush after weeks of recounts and court battles.

El-Sayed continues to hold the lead over U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, but the margin has narrowed as additional votes are being counted. 95% of the votes are in and counted –

but obviously not enough for the other outlets to call the race. As of 8 a.m. EST Michigan time, El-Sayed has 735,625 votes and Stevens has 716,222. Mallory McMorrow, who dropped out, has a whopping 60,893.

Whether NBC ends up being first or merely premature remains to be seen. After all, being first gets headlines – but being right is what people remember.