Well they tried to steal this one but Rick Scott was able to overwhelm the Democratic scheming to win the seat to the U.S. Senate.
The recount is finished: The Florida Secretary of State says the manual recount in the Senate race is complete. Official numbers released shows Gov. Rick Scott with a vote lead of 10,033 over incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson. Scott had a lead of 12,603 votes before the recount.
— Dan Merica (@merica) November 18, 2018
From the Hill:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has defeated Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) in a nationally watched Senate race that triggered two recounts and a series of bitter legal and public relations battles.
The contest came to an end on Sunday as a noon deadline passed for county election officials to submit the results of a hand recount that showed Scott leading Nelson by about 10,000 votes or about 0.12 percentage.
The hand recount was ordered after a machine recount showed the two candidates separated by only about 12,600 votes, or 0.15 points.
The latest results cemented Scott’s victory in a hard-fought race that stretched nearly two weeks past Election Day, when he appeared to edge out Nelson by less than 1 point.
But as vote tallies continued to trickle in from heavily Democratic Broward and Palm Beach counties in the days that followed, Scott’s lead narrowed considerably, putting the race within the 0.5-point threshold required to trigger a recount.
Too bad for the Democratic desiccated corpse they ran against Scott.
Sen Bill Nelson D-FL gains in final recount totals in Florida - but it's not enough, as Gov Rick Scott R-FL is the winner pic.twitter.com/gMoV7LVX0G
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) November 18, 2018