Bill Nelson needs a miracle in Florida Senate race
by Susan Ferrechio
| November 17, 2018 12:00 AM
Sen. Bill Nelson has no viable path to winning a recount of ballots in Florida’s U.S. Senate race, but he's still refusing to concede.
Nelson, a Democrat who has held the seat since 2000, remains about 12,600 votes behind Republican Gov. Rick Scott after a machine recount concluded Thursday.
Neither an ongoing hand recount nor an extended deadline for rejected mail-in ballots is likely to produce enough votes to put Nelson on top. But he’s not giving up.
“I truly believe we can win this race together,†Nelson told supporters in a fundraising email Friday.
The head of Nelson’s legal team, election recount veteran Marc Elias, said he believes a manual recount of irregular ballots that began Thursday would close the gap. But so far, it hasn’t.
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