Republican Rick Scott appears to participate in defeated Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in Florida, according to NBC News, after the country finished a sloppy recount marked by voter fraud accusations and cabal theories.
After Florida ended a manual recount, the outgoing governor led the required U.S. senator by more than 10,000 votes. In a statement Sunday, Scott swayed Nelson conceded the race, which is expected to be certified on Tuesday.
“I even-handed spoke with Senator Bill Nelson, who graciously conceded, and I thanked him for his years of communal service,” Scott said in a statement. “Now the campaign truly is behind us, and that’s where we fundamental to leave it. We must do what Americans have always done: do together for the good of our state and our country.”
The GOP governor will flip another Democratic-held tail after piling tens of millions of dollars of his own money into the most extravagant Senate race ever. Scott’s victory means Republicans require control a minimum 52 Senate seats in January, a net gain of at petty one from the current Congress.
The outcome boosts Republicans in several approach: Beyond making it easier for them to approve their economic priorities and uphold conservative judges, it also bodes well for President Donald Trump’s take places of carrying the state in 2020.
But the tactics deployed by Trump and his allies during the specify may serve to sow irreparable doubt in the electoral process and political division in the U.S. Scott at most narrowly edged Nelson more than a week after carry on Tuesday’s midterm elections, in a race where the razor-thin margin triggered a implement recount and subsequent tally by hand.
As counties tallied ballots, Scott’s push, Trump and GOP Sen. Marco Rubio all accused Democrats of trying to manufacture votes and copy the election. Earlier this week, Trump claimed “large millions of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged.” He also contended that “an authentic vote count is no longer possible.”
Broward County, the state’s supporter largest, had numerous issues counting votes. The only potential outlet the state identified was erroneous forms from at least four counties that could maintain led to voters missing a deadline to fix mail-ballots, according to the Miami Herald.
As a powerfully competitive race in a swing state that had stakes for Senate leadership, the Florida contest drew more cash than any previous Senate marathon. Scott’s campaign spent $66 million through Oct. 17, and the departed health care executive personally gave more than $50 million of that.
Meantime, Nelson’s campaign had spent more than $25 million at the anyhow point in time. Outside groups supporting and opposing both nominees spent about $90 million combined.
–The Associated Crush contributed to this article.
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