Rick Scott takes place among Senate GOP freshmen amid Florida recount
by Susan Ferrechio
| November 14, 2018 09:56 AM
Gov. Rick Scott stood among six senators-elect in the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Wednesday as Florida election officials conducted a recount of ballots in the still-undecided Senate race.
“It’s a lot better to have a big freshman class than not,†McConnell said as he greeted the group, which included newcomers Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Scott did not answer a question from a reporter who asked if he believed “there is fraud going on†in the ballot recount process in Florida, where he holds a narrow lead over incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat.
Scott is ahead by about 12,000 votes. Nelson has not conceded the race and his lawyers are suing to allow more ballots to be counted and to extend the deadline beyond Thursday, when a machine tally is due.
Scott plans to participate in the GOP leadership elections Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he believes Nelson has "an excellent chance" of prevailing over Scott in the recount.
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