President Donald Trump blasted the continued counting of votes in Broward County, Florida, where Republicans allege malfeasance is occurring to try and sway the tight gubernatorial and Senate results.
“If you look at Broward County, they have had a horrible history. And if you look at the person in this case — a woman involved — she has had a horrible history, and all of a sudden, they’re finding votes out of nowhere,” Trump said, referencing ongoing tensions of vote counting in Florida.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has blasted the Broward County supervisor Brenda Snipes, who Republicans allege is trying to steal votes for Democrats. Snipes has refused to say how long her tallying of votes will take despite Florida law provisions that it must be done by Saturday.
Not very comforting to #Florida voters that #BrowardCounty supervisor,in whose hands may rest outcome of Senate & cabinet race has in the past:
1. Illegally destroyed ballots
2. Secretly opened mail ballots
3. Sent voters too many ballot pages
4. Left const question off ballot— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 9, 2018
Early Voting in #BrowardCounty ended 108 hours ago. Every other county,including neighboring Miami-Dade (which had 100k more votes cast) was able to canvass,tabulate & report to state by deadline. But #Broward still hasn’t finished & won’t disclose how many ballots are left.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 9, 2018
Trump flatly declared before departing, “What’s going on in Florida is a disgrace,” and later tweeted a new catchphrase for the phenomenon of finding new votes late into the election process, dubbing it “The Broward Effect.”
Rick Scott was up by 50,000+ votes on Election Day, now they “found” many votes and he is only up 15,000 votes. “The Broward Effect.” How come they never find Republican votes?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2018
Mayor Gillum conceded on Election Day and now Broward County has put him “back into play.” Bill Nelson conceded Election – now he’s back in play!? This is an embarrassment to our Country and to Democracy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2018