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Republican Rick Scott wins Florida Senate seat by just 10,000 votes as Bill Nelson concedes
Florida's departing Republican Gov. Rick Scott has narrowly won a U.S. Senate seat in a bitterly contested race with incumbent Bill Nelson, official results showed Sunday. Nelson conceded the seat he has held for three terms since 2001 after a machine and hand recount showed ...
Rick Scott and Bill Nelson in limbo as Florida starts painstaking hand recount in U.S. Senate race
Volunteers gathered around folding tables Friday to begin a painstaking hand recount in Florida's acrimonious U.S. Senate contest, with a goal of determining the intent of about 93,000 voters whose ballots for Republican Gov. Rick Scott or Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson could not be ...
Florida finishes first round of recounts in Senate and governor races
Florida election officials on Thursday completed an initial recount of ballots in close races for the U.S. Senate and governor's seat but did not immediately release updated statewide figures. The recount concluded after U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee, Florida, cleared the way to ...
Trump's baseless voter fraud allegations seen marring U.S. faith in elections
More than a dozen times in the past seven days, President Donald Trump has alleged, contrary to evidence, that the recount of Florida's elections for governor and the U.S. Senate has been marred by fraud. "Many ballots are missing or forged," he tweeted on Monday. ...
Trump again calls on Florida Democrat to concede, implies ballot fraud but offers no proof
President Donald Trump again weighed in on Florida's election recount Tuesday, calling for the state's Democratic senator to admit he lost and again implied two counties' election officials are trying to steal the election from the Republicans without offering any proof. Trump tweeted out Tuesday ...
Trump urges Florida to halt law-mandated recount, hand races to Republicans
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Florida election officials to abandon recount efforts, declare his fellow Republicans the winners and, without evidence, cast doubt on vote tallies as state officials scrambled to review more than 8 million ballots by a Thursday deadline. Leads by ...
Florida election recount underway as tensions rise, accusations flare
The first election workers are recounting ballots Sunday in Florida's bitterly close races for the U.S. Senate and governor, ramping up their efforts after the secretary of state ordered a review of the two nationally watched contests. Miami-Dade County election officials began feeding ballots into ...
High-profile U.S. elections could be headed to recounts, legal action
High-profile elections in Georgia, Florida and Arizona remained unresolved on Thursday, two days after the vote, with the prospects of legal challenges and recounts setting the stage for possible weeks of uncertainty. The undecided races will not tip the balance in either chamber of Congress ...
Trump tours Florida hurricane destruction, says situation in town 'very tough'
U.S. President Donald Trump surveyed the damage from Hurricane Michael and met with survivors on Monday, saying food and housing were the top priorities for those hit in Florida's storm-ravaged Panhandle. "To see this personally is very tough — total devastation," Trump said in Lynn ...
Michael upgraded from tropical storm to hurricane in Gulf of Mexico as it draws bead on Florida
Tropical Storm Michael strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane Monday as it barreled toward the U.S. Gulf Coast packing maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, meteorologists said. The weather system was located between Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and the west coast of Cuba by 1500 GMT ...
Students who survived Florida mass shooting on collision course with lawmakers over guns
Students who survived the Florida school shooting began a journey Tuesday to the state Capitol to urge lawmakers to prevent another massacre, but within hours the gun-friendly Legislature had effectively halted any possibility of banning assault-style rifles like the one used in the attack. The ...
Florida students to march on Washington to 'shame' lawmakers into pursuing gun control laws
Students who survived a mass shooting at their Florida school on Sunday announced plans to march on Washington in a bid to "shame" lawmakers into reforming laws that make powerful firearms readily available. The "March for Our Lives" will take place on March 24, with ...
