RECOUNT IN FLORIDA

The Senate race in Florida is headed for a recount, according to Bill Nelson, the Democratic incumbent who is in danger of losing his seat. His Republican challenger, Gov. Rick Scott, was leading Wednesday by 0.4 percentage points, or 34,537 votes. (In a statement, Scott called Nelson’s recount request “sad.”)

The Senate race in Arizona has yet to be called. Kyrsten Sinema, a former Green Party activist who reinvented herself as a centrist Democrat, was trailing the Republican Martha Mcsally by 15,908 votes.

In Georgia, the governor’s race has not been called. On Wednesday morning, Republican Brian Kemp had a lead of 1.9 percentage points, or 75,386 votes, over the Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is seeking to become the first African-american governor in U.S. history. That puts him just slightly over the 50 per cent threshold needed to avoid a runoff, an outcome that Abrams has said may be a possibility once absentee votes are counted.