all of the protests down there. that s one of the counties under scrutiny because rick scott has really singled her out. democrats aren t all that necessarily that pleased with the job she s been doing either. in a conference call yesterday, we asked if we expected the governor would basically take her down from that position. they said that s not really the plan as of right now. certainly all of those canvasses were able to get to the secretary of state s office by today s deadline. that s a pretty good sign of moving it along on the timeline we ve been expecting. and andrew gillum going to speak to the media about this recount. talk a little bit about the process knowing what has to happen between now and that deadline on thursday for the secretary of state there in florida in getting this recount going. reporter: this is actually pretty straight forward in terms of the fact that the 67 counties are going to begin the machinery counts. that has to be done by thursday at i believe
that s kind of the next deadline we have in this entire process. it could get longer based on legal challenges and certainly people who have been through these recounts before in florida said that s something we should prepare for. not only, these expensive but they re long legal battles. here s the mayor. good afternoon, everyone. and thank you, once again first to you all but importantly to all of the volunteers and supporters who have been there with me and for me in this campaign every single step of the way. it has been, quite honest, the honor of my life to serve as a candidate for governor in the state of florida and for 21 months to have competed all across the state, including areas where people did not
we re officially in recount mode. we hit the first of the thresholds we ve been talking about all week, that .5% margin in three statewide races here. the place we are right now we re going to be talking about the governor s race, which is at about that .4%. that s an automatic machinery count. in the senate race it s much closer, about 15,000 votes separating bill nelson and rick scott. we re waiting if that s going to a hand recount, which we expect it will on thursday after the machine does its whole recount. andrew gillum conceded on tuesday night. he s not expected to unconcede. that s not binding, he really could. he s repeatedly saying he s urging all votes be cast. have you heard anything on the other side as we await to hear from andrew gillum when it comes to desantis and what s