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Machine recount that may or may not change much, but then an automatic hand recount because it's a quarter of 1%. that's where we're in lord knows what, never neverland of florida recounts. >> i'm going to take that to the bank. that's exactly what courts will be saying. congressman, you mentioned rick scott and what he talked about yesterday. he also talked, when he was making the statement, he was saying it in front of the governor's mansion. this is another tricky spot that we're finding ourselves in. you have the governor of the state, who traditionally, his job on a most basic level is to...

Homegrown killers are the problem. the question is when are we going to do something about it? we can talk more, but i have some breaking news i need to get to. we're going to talk more about that later on. but let's get to those races in florida and arizona. the senate races. here's harry entin. he's here with more. i want to ask you about florida. it looks like both the senate and governor's races could be headed to a recount here. good evening to you. >> good evening. i should point out they're heading to different kinds of recounts. basically florida law is if the margin between the two to...

Between 2000 and now. in 2000, the recount was precipitated by the candidates who had to request them and got to select which counties they were entered the legislator as a result of 2000 has significantly changed florida statutes. the candidates really have nothing to do with it now, if the margin between the candidates is less than 0.5 percent, it is an automatic so-called machine recount, where they ballots are sent through the machines again. if it is less than 0.25 percent, then there is an automatic, statewide, manual recount. as far as it mr. gillum is concerned, he is just waiting for ...

>> we won. i'm going to be the u.s. senator. i'm going to fight this all the way. we're going to do everything we can. we are looking at every legal remedy we can exercise. we're going to fight this and we're going to win. this. >> now, under florida law, any race with a margin of half a percent or less automatically goes to a machine recount. election attorney mike elias who is now representing bill nelson said. this you see it on our screen here. quote: we are doing this not just because it's automatic but because we want to win. now, in the florida's governor race, also in razor thin recoun...

Of the voters in florida. >> florida's hotly contested senate race between rick scott, the governor and bill nelson shows a different of 15,000 votes. that's .18 of 1% destined for a recount. the latest numbers in the governor's race show ron desantis' now down to 36,000 votes over tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. that is .44% also in recount territory. state law dictates any election in florida where the margin of victory is under a half a percent automatically gets machine recounted. it takes the secretary of state to order it and expected to do that tomorrow afternoon in tallahassee. neil? ...