Gillum concedes\, Nelson loses after FL recount

Florida's recount is officially over.

After Sunday's noon deadline to manually tally any votes missed by electronic voting machines, outgoing governor Republican Rick Scott was declared the winner - by a margin of 10,000 votes - in the bitter U.S. Senate race, despite already declaring victory on election night.

Incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson conceded, but not without getting in one final rebuke of the president.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATOR BILL NELSON SAYING: "We have to move beyond a politics that aims not just to defeat, but to to destroy, where falsehoods abound and that the free press is assaulted as 'the enemy of the people.'

Trump, later on Sunday, tweeting a congratulatory message to Rick Scott, saying he quote "never wavered." The conclusion of the Senate race comes a day after Democratic Candidate Andrew Gillum conceded to Republican rival Ron DeSantis in the state's gubernatorial race, after a machine recount showed there was no way to close the gap.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE ANDREW GILLUM SAYING: "Over votes, under votes, as long as it was a legally cast vote, we wanted those votes to be counted." Gillum had sought to become Florida's first black governor.

ABRAMS: "This is not a speech of concession." Meanwhile, in Georgia, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is planning to sue the state for "gross mismanagement" of the election by her opponent, Brian Kemp, who oversaw the race as secretary of state...and declared himself victor more than a week ago.