more telling and significant blow to the trump coalition than we have thought about because we focussed only on their taking those senate seats in what were already very republican states that matters but it s not good for the future of the trump coalition. absolutely. i was fielding so many texts on election night of people who were just devastated, democrats who were saying, they didn t feel like a blue wave because we had so much focus on the florida gubernatorial race, and the texas u.s. senate race because those were the exciting races, but when you think about the fact that during the obama years, because of that backlash, democrats gave up something like 900 state legislative seats. they got back a third of them in one night. think about that for a second. it took eight years for democrats to give up those 900 seats. they got a third of them in one night. look at the legislatures that were flipped, colorado, that s going to be important because
loses this race, the signs were there. on this program we talked about the fact that there was credible polling that suggested that scott and desantis were making inroads with hispanic voters that they shouldn t have been making. you speak to the point correctly about what bill nelson could have and probably should have done when it came to the african-american vote. one last point, listening to rick scott s clip that you played earlier talking about unethical liberals trying to steal this election, it s reminiscent of the language that brett kavanaugh who now sits on the supreme court was making and charging playing the partisan card? keep in mind rick scott is still the governor of florida. just yesterday he sent florida department of fdle agents to oversee the process in broward county. shades of brian kemp in georgia. unbelievable what this party is doing when it comes to
chose to resign for political optics, i might add. the woman who was appointed by the governor to be the acting secretary of state, she s a yale law graduate, african-american woman. i think they re trying to obviously skim over some of the political backlash to the arrogance in declaring yourself a victor when we have all these questions outstanding. i don t doubt her able ility to lead in some fashion, but why was she not appointed six months ago, five months ago so we could have saved ourselves this serious question? absolutely. i will go to you, jason. you ve been covering this race early on. the big glaring spotlight on this race was about brian kemp s long history of voter
thanks for watching. am joy starts right now. we re hopeful that every single vote will be counted in this race, and that way that all of us can walk away feeling extremely confident about what each and every one of us did to go out here and to have our say in this election. all i ve got to say is let s count every vote, let s bring it home. good morning. welcome to am joy. the fight for florida is not over. not just yet. because a mere two hours from no all 67 counties in the sunshine state must turn over their ballot results from tuesday s midterm election. if the races are as close as they look, that could trigger official recounts in two key races, the governor s race and the senate race. already vote counting has flipped the race for agricultural commissioner to the democrat. the race for governor continued to narrow even after democrat andrew gillum conceded the race tuesday night.
votes remain to be counted. there are voices that are waiting to be heard. across our state folks are opening up the dreams of voters and absentee ballots and we believe our chance for a stronger georgia is just within reach. with just over 60,000 votes separating stacey abrams and brian kemp abrams insists the race is way too close to concede. kemp has taken a victory lap and resigned as georgia secretary of state claiming the total 20,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in the governor s race is not enough to trigger a runoff. abrams who has spent much of her career combating brian kemp s voter suppression efforts says there are thousands of other ballots left. she is vowing to stay in the race until every single vote is counted. joining me now is mayor teresa tomlinson and there is a