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Have been called he would have gained 779 votes. but instead they were late, and he's now saying he thinks that brenda snipes did this intentionally but to division of elections he didn't understand it and he said i just worked my blank off for nothing. so last five days were basically a waste. >> andrew gillum on senate on governor side listening for great race he conceded once. he has the speech written already. just repeat it because you lost. you're not going to make up the gap. but you have to know how to lose in life it is important to define who you are. pfnlg he said every single volt ...

-- the results had been confirmed. been allowed and valid he would have gained 779 votes extending his lead on bill nelson, the democrat. by being two minutes late it forces the whole state into a hand recount. of course, when you get a hand recount it introduces the possibility of human error or the possibility of further malfeasance. i think that rick scott's campaign is probably right to feel that this is at least suspicious. >> jon: scott's campaign lost out on 780 votes because of the administrator missing the deadline yesterday but there are about 12,600 votes between the two campaigns. ...

That triggered these counts are tiny. you look at half a percentage point will trigger a machine recount, a quarter percentage point will trigger a hand recount. in a state as big as florida, these are huge numbers of votes. ron desantis has 33,000 votes more than andrew gillum for the governor's race and as peter was just saying, there are 12,600 votes more for governor scott than there are for his democratic opponent bill nelson. now, that 779 votes would have extended rick scott's lead by just 6 1/2%. these are very small amounts of change. i don't think that -- i think it's very -- it woul...

>> bret: this is a fox news alert. we just brought you the recount updates from florida. breaking news now. the scott campaign, this is heading to a manual recount to the senate race in florida. they are alleging that the broward county supervisor brenda snipes as we told you at the top of the show missed the deadline by 2 minutes to submit broward county's recount a number because, the scott campaign is saying, that it would invalidate those numbers. because in that count, they say rick scott picked up 779 votes. in other words, he lost less than nelson didn't fit with the late submission bla...

Over. >> and the person hadn't had enough practice on the web site? >> user error. none of the results count. >> what was the mood when the news broke? >> jaws dropped. the entire room was stunned. everybody the lawyers didn't know what to say. >> brad, your candidate may win but he has sort of embarrassed himself by saying things aren't tr, to hurt him. all right, before these numbers the democratic margin was decreasing. >> wait a minute. every time when you're a kid and you said the dog ate my home work, the dog never ate your home work and they didn't have this issue of two minutes ahead o...