that every vote get counted. the republican side insisted every vote has been counted and that there are more coming into the process. there are allegations of fraud and cheating that have not been proven. there are a lot of suspicions on both sides given what s happened here. this gives enough life to the democratic candidates, andrew gill gillum, running for governor and nelson, who is trying to hang on to his senate seat to wreck scott. he had the lead and the lead kept dwindling and dwindling as the process went on. the other side insisted there s fraud, that this happens all the time, that lawyers get in and they accuse the democrats of trying to steal the election.
i m in for richard lui at msnbc headquarters in new york. we begin in florida where in a matter of moments we are expecting to hear from government democratic candidate for governor adam gillum. he s expected to address the statewide rekou widwide recounty the secretary of state. the results of the recount due no later than 3 p.m. on november 15th. the latest numbers have gillum within .14% of ron desantis. good afternoon. reporter: we are about to hear from andrew gillum.
gillum in florida, now that we have a recount in motion. andrew gillum saying he is replacing his word with a count for every vote. i want to bring in now steve shale, the former florida state director for barack obama s 2008 presidential campaign and also emily tisch-sussman from the center of american progress and rick tyler, an msnbc analyst. rick, your thoughts on the words that came out of andrew gillum here saying, yeah, i know i conceded the other day but now i m pulling it back. concessions don t matter. the legal vote counts. he seems to be making a very reasoned call. this issimple.
all of the protests down there. that s one of the counties under scrutiny because rick scott has really singled her out. democrats aren t all that necessarily that pleased with the job she s been doing either. in a conference call yesterday, we asked if we expected the governor would basically take her down from that position. they said that s not really the plan as of right now. certainly all of those canvasses were able to get to the secretary of state s office by today s deadline. that s a pretty good sign of moving it along on the timeline we ve been expecting. and andrew gillum going to speak to the media about this recount. talk a little bit about the process knowing what has to happen between now and that deadline on thursday for the secretary of state there in florida in getting this recount going. reporter: this is actually pretty straight forward in terms of the fact that the 67 counties are going to begin the machinery counts. that has to be done by thursday at i believe
so there will be a recount. what will be the result of the recount? no one knows, of course. there s speculation as to whether the margins of thousands of votes are enough to perhaps flip it one way or the other. that, of course, anything is possible. but obviously this process will come under a lot of intense scrutiny. it s a huge victory of sorts for andrew gillum, who conceded himself race for governor on tuesday night, but of course that s not permanent and he s back into it. we ve heard from his cam many ov camp over recent days they re preparing for a recount. and for nelson, this governors him new life to hang on to his seat that he apparently lost tuesday night. there are lawyers in every direction filing suits and countersuits and all that. while there s a battle in the ballot boxes, there s also a battle in the courts of florida.