11/09/2018: Election Results Stakes Are High With Lawsuits; Statewide Recounts Looming
• Recounts are looming and expected to be ordered Saturday afternoon in at least three statewide races.
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Each week Melissa Ross of WJCT and Tom Hudson of WLRN in Miami, along with a panel of journalists from around the state, discuss the week in Florida news in The Florida Roundup Statewide edition.
• Recounts are looming and expected to be ordered Saturday afternoon in at least three statewide races.
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• On Friday’s Florida Roundup we looked at how voting is going with just days left before the midterm elections, how one county is a microcosm of Florida politics and how Amendment 4 could drive voter turnout.
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• On Friday’s Florida Roundup we led with breaking news as authorities arrested a man in connection with the wave of suspicious packages sent this week to political critics of President Donald Trump. Cesar Altieri Sayoc, 56, was arrested in South Florida as we were going on the air. David O’Valle of The Miami Herald joined us with the details. At least one of the packages passed through a large U.S. mail sorting facility in Opa-locka, Fla., near Miami. The Miami Herald, citing a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation, reported that the package sent from the facility is likely the one that ended up on Wednesday at the South Florida office of U.S. …
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• On Friday’s Florida Roundup we looked at the race to become Florida’s next Commissioner of Agriculture along with recovery efforts in the Panhandle.
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• This week The Florida Roundup looked at the destruction caused by Hurricane Michael along with what the response has been from officials.
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• The Florida Roundup, a statewide, weekly news program produced by WJCT in Jacksonville and WLRN in Miami, now airs Fridays at noon on WMFE. Hosts Tom Hudson and Melissa Ross talked with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum about health insurance and paying teachers $50,000 a year. The Roundup also heard from Ron DeSantis at a Tampa event he attended this week as he goes after Gillum on taxes. Joining the show for analysis: WUSF reporter Steve Newborn, Democratic strategist Fernand Amandi and GOP strategist Mac Stipanovich.
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