expected a few days ago when they were previewing this machine count. now what s going forward is republicans have gone about the business, those republicans leading in the races, rick scott, governor of florida in the senate race went to washington like he was a senator, and ron desantis, former congressman who is now leading in the governor s race against andrew gillum, gone on with his transition. also a historical content, there have been recounts here. a mid the recount has continued to do a voter fraud conspiracy even though his candidates are leading he s calling the daily caller sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. nobody takes anything. it s really a disgrace. that s what s going on. dan fact check this for us.
i m david gura. turning to the drawn-out battles from florida and georgia s top seats. the fight over georgia s governorship came to a bitter conclusion last night after democrat stacey abrams admitted she no longer had a viable path to victory there and netted 55,000 fewer votes than republican brian kemp and in a rebuke of the system called out voter disenchizment and competent saying the state failed its voters. and meanwhile wrapping up a machine count coming in less than a quarter point, but broward county s hand count wrapped up two hours after it began read at bad news for democratic candidate bill nelson. deadline is tomorrow at noon and after a judge dealt nelson s team another blow yesterday, democratic hopes for a big turnaround are fading. joining us now from miami, mark caputo. senior writer for politico. ask you about the path forward.
and under votes. they ll be judging intent. you guys showed that ballot earlier. one fully circled and one kind of circled. now officials have to look at that and decide what the vote means. not an easy task. sandra: an op-ed on this. the headline florida has chance to redeem itself. florida officials must examine impartially the intent of voters on each ballot rejected in the machine count. republicans should embrace such intense scrutiny of voter intent. i m fine for that. both shelby and david are saying what i was really trying to underscore. we need a transparent count. i think if you do this honestly and with integrity as it was done in every other county and miami-dade did it pretty fast, i think we will all win. what ronna mcdaniel was saying reflects all of our views. it s such a disservice what happened yesterday. such a disservice to all the
returning safe and sound to the. greg: good thing it isn t hump day. dana: that s it for us. i m sure you have had enough. special report is up next. hey, bret. bret: never enough, dana. thank you. this is a fox news alert. i m bret baier in washington. major news on two disputed midterm election battles. moments ago democrat stacey abrams ended her campaign and said she cannot win but still wouldn t call it a concession speech. her hard fought effort to overtake republican brian kemp in the georgia s governor s race. in fiery remarks abrams claimed democracy failed georgia but added she will no longer stand in the way of officials certifying kemp as the winner. meantime in florida, they are doing it the old fashioned way tonight. a hand recount of votes underway to find out who won the u.s. senate race in the state. while the governor s race appears over after a machine count and will be officially certified next week.
elections have not conducted this election with the exacting starts that florida s law requires. susan booker, the elections supervisor in palm beach county, seems to have just stopped running the ballots through the machines. at 3:00, if she does not submit a number from her machine count, then we will revert back to the number we had on saturday. that s what florida s law says. there s a lot of focus on the supervisors of elections in these two counties. when it comes to you have palm beach county and broward county. when it comes to broward county, your candidate, the governor, could take brenda snipes off the job. she was put in place 15 years ago by that by jeb bush under those kind of exact same circumstances. not during an election. why hasn t he removed her then if she s so bad? you know, first off, he did send monitors to broward county s elections this year to bolster her and increase the