Can you tell me about the election results that Trump challenged in the Florida count?
Can you tell me about the election results that Trump challenged in the Florida count?
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In the 2018 election, then-Governor Rick Scott narrowly lost the Senate race in Florida to incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson. Initially, Scott's defeated but he refused to concede and alleged that there had been an influx of voting irregularities. Eventually, the results of this race were disputed and recounted but Scott did not succeed in flipping his loss into a win. The Senate race remains one of Trump’s top cases regarding 'crooked politics'.
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Can you tell me about the election results that Trump challenged in the Florida count?
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In 2020, President Trump challenged the election results in the US State of Florida. The president accused election officials in Miami-Dade County of fraud after there was a significant gap between initial projections and the number of votes that was later reported. After two recounts, Trump initially won 498 of the county's 605 precincts which would have given him an insurmountable lead. However, local lawyers for Democratic nominee Joe Biden argued that more than one million voting systems were inconsistent with prevailing laws and as such ordered new counts from those areas which when completed granted almost all precinct's votes to be awarded to Biden. This left Trump without enough winning votes statewide to win Florida but eventually an appeals court upheld his victory meaning he kept his pivotal electoral college victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite losing by some margin in Florida by vote
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