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.