the deadline by two minutes. reportedly the person from broward who was submitting the county s data was unfamiliar with the state s website. it took an extra couple of minutes. palm beach county missed the deadline because of their machines overheating. hillsboro county decided ton submit new results at all after the power went out and the recount showed a drop of 846 votes from the first time through. alligator ate your ballot. what does that mean? the state instead is going to use whatever those counties submitted to the state on saturday alongside recounted totals from all the other counties in the state. whatever they end up counting right now, the governor s race looks more out of reach for democrat andrew gillum than the florida senate race would for democrat bill nelson. tonight the republican and the governor s race ron desantis declared victory over andrew gillum. called himself the governor elect. andrew gillum is not conceding. he continues to say every vote needs to be cou
are more votes to count. in the florida senate race we are going it looks like to a second recount. there was the machine recount that almost all the counties finished today, but rick scott, after that recount after that machine recount, he appears to lead democratic incumbent bill nelson by less than 13,000 votes and that is definitely close enough for there to be yet another statewide recount. this time not a machine recount. this time it will be ballots being counted by hand. so elections officials will be looking for ballots that the machines might have had trouble reading because a voter skipped a race or candidate in the race. lawyers for bill nelson s campaign tell us they are filing a new motion in state court asking that all the votes in at least one county, palm beach county, should be recounted by hand. all the votes, not just anything spit out or marked as trouble. that would be over 580,000 ballots in that one county. that hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow. i d
recount all votes. one crucial county started counting just a few minutes ago. cnn s rosa flores is in broward county, joining me now. rosa, the question all along has been can they meet the deadline? what is the latest you re hearing right now? you know, kate, if what i m about to tell you sounds as clear as mud, it s because it is as clear as mud. as you mentioned, broward county just started recounting, but they stopped sorting to start recounting, but they re not saying exactly when they re going to go back to sorting because they have to finish the sorting before they can finish the recounting. again, it s as clear as mud, but that is the guidance we re hearing right now. most of the controversy here in florida has been zeroed in on broward county and palm beach county, which are democrat strongholds. now, inserting a county into the controversy that s a republican stronghold. big county in the oklahoma panhandle. it was hit by hurricane michael,
do they have enough to pull it off? let s look at the map. again, focus first, not just on the red and blue, but on the gray. that is where we have no votes. that is where we have no votes and most of that area, yes, it s small, yes, it s rural, most, not over here, this is democratic over here, but this up in h here are republican votes we have yet to count. if you t re the democrats, 53%-46%. you re feeling good about that as you go through. come in here, look at austin, texas. travis county. we knew beto o rourke was going to win in travis county. the question is, can he win big? that s big. 75%-23%. san antonio, another area where democrats statewide in texas, has to win big. he s winning in there. see how it goes right there when we take a look at it. winning in dallas, starting to get some votes. we don t have harris county yet. this is houston right here. harris county is giant. 16% of the state population. big county here. we don t have any of that yet. growing more diverse, mo
big a majority as they can get. even if they ve only got a one-seat majority that means that they will take over the committee chairmanships, nancy pelosi will be speaker once again. how important is the size of the democratic majority, if that wave doesn t materialize, but they do win? you always want you need safety in there. people can switch, people can die, a thousand things could happen. so you want some margin there. you know, let s wait and see. still could get it. don t get me wrong. i m saying this is not going to be the wave election that people like me would have hoped for. it can still be a good election. but some of these races are going to be, you know, very tight. you know, it s still volatile in florida. you ve got a lot of broward out, a big county, and hard for scott to make this up in the panhandle. but it s going to be close. i went in this morning feeling almost confident, to the point