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In a morning tweet, Trump called for a halt to recounts in Florida, where Republicans’ leads in Senate and governor races have eroded as outstanding votes are tallied. He said election night results should hold, a move that would disenfranchise absentee, mail in, provisional, overseas and military voters.
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Trump, in his tweet, focused on Florida, the state where he maintains a home, and where he campaigned hard for the Republicans’ Senate and gubernatorial candidates.
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The president acknowledged that some Senate races were still hanging in the balance, but marveled at the best case scenario for his party: “Fifty five is the largest number of Republican senators in the last 100 years.” His party will now hold, at best, 53 Senate seats, if Scott holds onto his lead in Florida and Republicans win a runoff election in Mississippi, as is widely expected.
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That looks more likely in the Senate race between Scott and Nelson. Scott has seen his cushion narrow to 12,562 votes out of more than 8 million ballots cast statewide a 0.15% margin according to the state’s unofficial count as of Saturday.
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Scott on Sunday accused Nelson and Democrats of trying to “commit fraud to try to win this election.” Scott’s campaign has filed lawsuits against election supervisors in Broward and Palm Beach counties, two Democratic strongholds where officials have been slower to process ballots.
At an emergency hearing Monday in Broward County, a judge emphasized the lack of evidence of wrongdoing and urged all sides to “ramp down the rhetoric” to avoid undermining citizens’ trust in elections.
Florida law allows county clerks up to 10 days after election day to count ballots received that day, and those that trickle in after.
Steve Schale, a Democratic operative and blogger in the state, cited Pinellas County, which includes St. Petersburg, where 20,000 ballots arrived just on election day.
“That’s why the law provides the window until 10 days after for people to reconcile those absentees,” he wrote. “Despite all the controversy and uncertainty, the process is actually working like it’s supposed to. 8.2 million ballots aren’t going to get counted overnight.”
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In Georgia, Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams also remained locked in a bitterly disputed gubernatorial race.
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