even though the democrat, gillum there, has not conceded item. you can t spell gillum without two l s. a hand recount under way for republican rick scott who still believes he s beat democrat bill nelson but the race is still going. coming to you live from river air yeah beach. good evening, steve. stacey abrams acknowledged that she lost the governor s race of georgia to brian kemp. kemp got about 50,000 more votes than arazorbacks out of four million cast. he narrowly avoid add run-off election by getting 50.2% of the vote. abrams was fighting arrested to the last minute to try and get 17,000 additional votes. that would have forced a run-off election. next month. she said there was no legal means to do so so in her concession speech she said strangely that it wasn t really a concession. here s abrams.
republican ron desantis has declared victory for the second time. the democrat in that race, andrew gillum retracted his concession earlier this week and has not conceded again vowing as of a couple hours ago to fight on. we have fox team coverage peter doocy at the broward county election headquarters again tonight with the florida story but we start off with the breaking news steve harrigan in atlanta with the very confusing message from stacey abrams. good evening. you are right this was a fiery angry speech by abrams and puzzling as well. she acknowledged that she lost the governor s race in georgia to brian kemp. kemp got 50.2% of the vote. he had a lead of about 50,000 votes out of 4 million cast. so kemp really just managed to avoid a run off election he had dipped under 50% that would have happened next month. he avoided that abrams tried to gather and prove she had 17,000 more votes coming. she was unable to do it. so she gives her concession
the state as the winner. right now he has about 50,000 more votes than the democrat, abrams. he said 50.2% in the polls in the election results. he would have to go under 50% to force a run-off election. so abrams would need to find about 17,000 votes. but abrams still has one more option. an extreme legal option. she could ask a judge to throw out the votes and call for a revote based on irrebel laterties and fraud. strong enough fraud that it would make a difference in to who won this election. this would be a high legal bar to meet, something that hasn t been done here and something that the abrams campaign has talked about but they haven t said they re going to do it yet. tempers and tones are really getting worse and worse as this drags on. we have had calls for concessions from kemp and from president trump and recently kemp said about abrams refusal to concede, he called it a temper tantrum.
trails by 50,000 votes is scheduled in speak in an hour. will it be a concession speech, doesn t sound like it or an extreme legal challenge to this entire vote? will the abrams campaign as they d have discussed issue a legal challenge saying this vote in georgia was so corrupt and so irregular that it affecting an outcome and asking the judge to overthrow the vote and have a recount. it would be a high bar. they talked about it. as it stands right now, the republican brian kemp in the next few hours, he could be certified as the winner of this election. he stands at 50.2% of the vote. that would have to go below 50% for a run-off vote in december. abrams would need 17,000 votes. the tone here is changing. it s getting worse each day. the latest from kemp saying that abrams behavior, not conceding,
democrats were hoping to take back. right now, the republican candidate, marsha blackburn, is ahead with a significant lead. 66% of the vote. and change. the democrat, phil bredesen is behind. indiana, mike braun, republican challenger, is ahead in the race. 55.6 55.6%, he has that much of the vote. joe donnelly, incumbent democrat, 40.3%. this, again, is trump country, but a democrat there, republicans are trying to take it back. same story in florida. the republican challenger is ahead. but it is still very, very close. 50.2% of the vote for rick scott. the democratic incumbent, third-term incumbent, bill nelson, is trailing at 49.8%. 91% of the vote in. we re going to watch florida all night long, nia. we are, dana. and speaking of florida, we re going to look at this governors race and update here. ron desantis still in the lead at this point by about .8 points