Like the 2012 version, Acceptance takes the acceptance speeches given by the two major-party presidential candidates and subjects them to a never-ending editing process based on their language. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump use vocabularies of around 1300 unique words each in their hour-length monologues. 975 of these words (75%) of these words are the same.

The piece synchronizes, whenever possible, the two candidates' language, so that they deliver each others' speeches in synchronicity. The work regularly alternates between which candidate is the rhetorical leader, so that one video is always playing in a linear fashion while the other jumps around to match the other speaker's vocabulary. This never-ending acceptance speech highlights both the similarities and differences in the speaking style, rhetoric, and body language of two of the most easily-contrasted presidential candidates in U.S. history.

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