unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in florida. all of a sudden they re finding votes out of nowhere. i hear i don t know. you tell me. its always the democrats. its always gps fusion. its always crooked stuff. so there are still several races too close to call and democrats could secure more victories. the senate city in arizona could turn blue. the democrat has taken the lead by one percentage point. there have been no allegations of voter fraud there. the president on twitter suggested calling for a new election. he claimed without evidence, there has been electoral corruption and georgia s race for governor also in dispute. republican brian kemp is leading by just .3 of a percentage point. and now democrats stacy abrams says her campaign has found thousands of ballots that have not been counted. once again, joining me the host of a.m. joy, joy reid, steve
as soon as i refresh my phone, palm beach county was the seconds of those two counties that the rick scott campaign was looking into as well as the nelson campaign. nelson campaign thinks that s a place they can pick up more votes and cured is how we talk about these provisional ballots. rick scott did sue palm beach county in addition to broward county for the supervisors to tell them how many votes were left to count. we don t know those numbers yet. the scott campaign did not get those numbers out of that lawsuit despite the fact that a judge did compel them to give them over. we re waiting for the legal side of it and for what happens on the secretary of state side of it over here in tallahassee. you can pick up your phone and start refreshing. see what you find out since the last two minutes. steve, let s say there is a statewide recap, how long is that process? what happens? reporter: its actually prescribed in the law. secretary of state s office will declare a recount.
gillum in florida, now that we have a recount in motion. andrew gillum saying he is replacing his word with a count for every vote. i want to bring in now steve shale, the former florida state director for barack obama s 2008 presidential campaign and also emily tisch-sussman from the center of american progress and rick tyler, an msnbc analyst. rick, your thoughts on the words that came out of andrew gillum here saying, yeah, i know i conceded the other day but now i m pulling it back. concessions don t matter. the legal vote counts. he seems to be making a very reasoned call. this issimple.
churches, but to dig in and do voter registration? black and hispanic voters tend to be younger. you have to get in there and do a lot more work. the democratic party has to figure out why can t they win statewide elections when kansas can elect a democratic governor. why? the youth vote has made a difference predominantly across this nation. all of you guys made really good points. steve shale, joy, we ll release you now. ali, not you. we ll come back and talk to you in just a bit. we ll go from florida to california. the raging wildfires claiming lives and property in the north and south of golden state. that camp fire, that has been declared the most destructive in the state history. nine people killed already. more than 6,400 homes destroyed. kathy park is joining us from west hills in the san fernando valley. kathy, it is absolutely heartbreaking these pictures.
joining me now is steve shale, ally vitale, and here in new york is ellie mistaval. so let s get an update on what s really the count, not yet the recount. yeah. we have not quite hit the recount yet. that should officially come this afternoon. you mentioned the noon deadline for those initial round of counting of the votes to basically effectively trigger this recount officially, right? so we mentioned that there was the 0.5 margin which triggers an automatic recount by machine, then the 0.2% margin that triggers the recount by hand. on the senate side, it looks like it will go to the next round further than that, they re closer than that 0.25% margin