A fired-up Andrew Gillum hearkened back to the Civil Rights movement and looked toward future generations in calling for every vote to be counted in Florida – and he asked supporters in Orlando to help.
“God knows, I don’t have a leg to stand on to ask you to do anything further,” Gillum told hundreds who packed pews at St. Mark AME Church on Tuesday night. “But I’m going to ask you anyway.”
As Gillum spoke at the Faith in Florida event, “Count Every Vote: A Faith Response to the Florida Recount,” millions of ballots were being put through machines in Orange County and in 66 other Florida counties, part of the unprecedented three statewide recounts for U.S. Senate, agriculture commissioner and Gillum’s own race for governor against Republican Ron DeSantis.
The Democratic mayor of Tallahassee trailed DeSantis by 33,684 votes, or 0.41 percent, triggering an automatic statewide machine recount because the margin was within 0.5 percent. A hand recount would only happen if the margin closes to within 0.25 percent after the recount.
