{"id":12108,"date":"2018-11-18T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T02:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2018-11-18T18:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T02:01:49","slug":"gov-rick-scott-wins-florida-senate-race-after-manual-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12108","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Rick Scott wins Florida Senate race after manual recount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two weeks after Election Day, Republican Gov. Rick Scott has won\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/florida-recount-moves-completion\/story?id=59246272\">Florida&#8217;s Senate race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson conceded to Scott Sunday afternoon, recording a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cko1CDpMLFc&amp;feature=youtu.be\">YouTube video<\/a>\u00a0in which he acknowledged defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson called Scott to concede, the latter said in a statement. President Trump congratulated Scott in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1064246787161145346\">tweet<\/a>, writing: &#8220;From day one Rick Scott never wavered. He was a great Governor and will be even a greater Senator in representing the People of Florida.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It marks the end of a long and at-times messy vote recount that drew national attention amid reported irregularities in vote counting by county officials, problems with tabulation machines and missed deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>It also marks the end of Democrats&#8217; hopes in Florida&#8217;s two high-profile elections this year. On Saturday, Democratic Tallahassee Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/andrew-gillum-concedes-race-ron-desantis-governor-florida\/story?id=59269671\">Andrew Gillum conceded<\/a>\u00a0to Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis in the governor&#8217;s race. In defeat, Gillum drew praise from Trump on Twitter afterward. Recounting had stopped in that race after Thursday&#8217;s conclusion of a machine recount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two weeks after Election Day,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12109,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions\/12109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}