temtemper to help keep order during emergencies. that s only happened twice both times after terror attacks. steve: heated florida raves have been declared over and ron desantis has been elected governor again. brian: come back story joining us to discuss this victory is governor ron desantis. governor, anything but easy. were there any doubts in the interim from election day to today that you would be at this moment governor elect of florida? no. i mean, look only thing being elected governor of florida something elected twice in two weeks. we had a margin on election night. it was a close race but definitive i had won. even with some of the votes that turned up in broward, i mean, my margin was significant enough. weave knew the machine recount was not going to change it and it didn t. i had confidence that governor scott would end up winning the recount. both manual and machine recount there. so, i think that s great
they ve physically got the resignation from her. the sun sent nall is reporting she decided she wants to spend more time with her family. the recount she ran in broward county was marred with controversy throughout. this weekend 2,000 ballots went missing and she said they were somewhere in her building and her team turned in machine recount results two minutes late and rejected by the state for that reason. after that happened she did tell me she was pleased with the way things were going on her watch. julie: peter doocy, thank you very much. bill: the president defending republicans performance in mid-terms. fox fox news sunday with chris wallace he said this. i won the senate, that s historic, too. if you look at presidents in the white house it has almost never happened where you won a seat. we have 53 as opposed to 51 now. and we have 53 great senators
will be here and that sets forth an exciting hour for us. we will bring it live as it happens. and then with the news, we will begin with a fox news alert, the florida recount showdown has finally come to an end with republicans prevailing in two big races. this is outnumbered overtime, i m harris faulkner. the senate race that triggered two recounts, rick scott defeated bill nelson with republicans expanding their majority to 52 seats in the senate. versus 47 by democrats. in the florida governor s race, republican ron desantis be democrat andrew gillum after a machine recount. president trump campaign for both republicans, watch. i m appreciative of the president, we got a lot of good things done the last two years together. i am just excited i ve learned a lot as governor, i think a lot of his orders, he
i m bowing out every vote is about to be counted. i m bowing out. so maybe what nelson will do before the deadline at noon when the recount ends or possibly afterwards. democrats came into this recount pretty clear-eyed there would be no silver bullet to fix and close the gap for these two races. they needed winds in the legal arena with a series of lawsuits that would have expanded the universe of ballots that they could have had counted and during this machine recount which all of the ballots were run through again. they needed some wins there as well. frankly, they got neither of them and where pressure right now is squarely on bill nelson to figure out what he does as this deadline moves forward in florida. dan merica, thank you. appreciate it. the police union in little rock, arkansas, is drawing criticism over its attack of a candidate if mayor in the city. in a facebook post the city s fraternal order of police wrote the guy on the left is frank scott jr. who is running for
he also close race for governor, which also went to a machine recount. republican ron desantis will be the state s next governor beating tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. gillum conceded last night. and now that we are rounding that out, rj and i wanted to take a moment to congratulate mr. desantis on becoming the next governor of the great state of florida. ron desantis tweeted, this was a hard fought campaign. now it s time to bring florida together. absolutely one of the closest midterm elections in florida history, possibly of all time. here s how close it was peered out of it was. at every .2 million votes cast in florida, scott wins over nelson by 10,000 votes in the governor s race wins by 32,000.