nelson. nelson conceded a short time ago. i m not victorious in this race, but i still wish to strongly reafirm the cause for which we fought. a public office is a public trust. nbc ali is at the palm beach county voting center. great to have you with us. it s finally done. a lot of legal challenges. walk us through how it all went down in the final and why did bill nelson feel that he needed to concede at this point? 24 hours ago bill nelson was still sending fundraising e-mails asking them to support his recount battle. today you just played a piece of his concession. he called rick scott. the scott campaign described it as a gracious phone call. there was a piece of his concession speech.
this process is about one thing, making sure that every legal ballot is counted and protecting the right of every floridian. nelson is behind governor rick scott by 12,000 votes in his recount battle with the governor rick scott and as the legally required recounting has now gone three days plus, president trump keeps up criticism. when will bill nelson concede in florida? the characters running voting will not be able to find enough votes. spotlight on them now. an hour ago, the broward county supervisor elections brenda snipes unexpectedly face that media cameras and said she might resign after all of this. all the emphasis, the focus is on me.
this process is about one thing, making sure that every legal ballot is counted and protecting the right of every floridian. nelson is behind governor rick scott by 12,000 votes in his recount battle with the governor rick scott and as the legally required recounting has now gone three days plus, president trump keeps up criticism. when will bill nelson concede in florida? the characters running voting will not be able to find enough votes. too much spotlight on them now. an hour ago, the broward county supervisor elections brenda snipes unexpectedly face that media cameras and said she might resign after all of this. all the emphasis, the focus is on me. but i have a great staff who
canvas, when we go to a recount. we know because of our great chack tracking systems and election results the senate race is absolutely going not just to a machine recount most likely a hand recount, and that will be important especially talking to the nelson legal team. they re looking for this idea of undervotes. discrepancies between the number of voters who voted in the governor s race not the senate race, and that s a question. the nelson team is hoping to get to this in a later stage of this, hand recounts. on the governor s side, that desantis/gillum race, do they hit that .5% automatic machine recount. we think they will. not looking like it will go to a hand recount, right now the campaigns on all sides are sticking to their ground on the governor s side. a holding pattern. the senate side, assured pretty much we re going to a lengthy recount battle. both sides staking out legal turf and spin a little bit. eugene, something that s
welcome back, everyone. the florida races for senate and governor are getting even tighter tonight. are both headed for a recount in states famous, you can say inpau must, that grueling, remember, 36 recount battle between george bush and al gore in 2000, that just kept us hostage forever. keith boykin is here as well as alice stewart. we don t want to relive those days. that was painful. good evening to both of you. keith, give me your reaction to what s going on in florida. it s very disturbing. you mentioned florida 2000. 537 votes decide that had election. today we re in a race where less than 0.5% of the vote between andrew gillum and ron desantis, we re less than a quarter percent of the vote, smaller percentage between rick scott and bill nelson. there is an automatic recount that is almost guaranteed to happen in both races. i think you need to count every vote. rick scott going on television today talking about how there is voter fraud with no evidence to