Florida’s Governor’s Race Is Essentially Settled…

It’s basically official! After the recount, Ron DeSantis is STILL the winner of the tight governor’s race in Florida.

A recount of more than 8 million ballots that ended Thursday afternoon confirmed that Republican Ron DeSantis beat the Democratic Tallahassee mayor in the nationally watched race that galvanized progressives across the country.

The final tally, headed to certification next week, was 4,075,445 for DeSantis and 4,041,762 for Gillum.

This is good. The margin is big enough that there’s no need to call for a hand recount.

Gillum doesn’t care.

The #FloridaRecount shows the same close spread, .41% in the #FLGov Race with @FloridaGOP @RonDeSantisFL ahead still of @FlaDems @AndrewGillum. Close, but not enough to trigger manual recount. Will Gillum concede? #fnr

— Eben Brown (Fox) (@FoxEbenBrown) November 15, 2018

Nope. He refuses to concede.

“A vote denied is justice denied — the State of Florida must count every legally cast vote,” Gillum said in a statement. “As today’s unofficial reports and recent court proceedings make clear, there are tens of thousands of votes that have yet to be counted. We plan to do all we can to ensure that every voice is heard in this process. Voters need to know that their decision to participate in this election, and every election, matters. It is not over until every legally casted vote is counted.”

Translation: He believes he can steal the nomination through a bunch of timely and costly lawsuits.

By the way– Gillum only proceeded to pick up…well…see for yourself.

Florida recount: Andrew Gillum refuses to concede, gains just 1 vote on Ron DeSantis https://t.co/PFsHX3FJmX pic.twitter.com/JJjlYUpdu7

— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) November 15, 2018

Gillum literally picked up ONE (yes, you read that right) vote in the re-count.

He's still refusing to concede…https://t.co/HgUgfn0E1N

— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) November 15, 2018

Sore losers. All of ’em.