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Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. [Get On Politics delivered to your inbox.] Nearly a week after Election Day, here we are again, still waiting for results in five statewide elections. Three of them are in Florida, of course, the result of a state law mandating the recount of races with tight margins. That’s not exactly how the president and Florida Republicans see it. Here’s a recap of where things stand today: • The first full, statewide vote recount in Florida history started on Saturday for races for governor, Senate and agriculture secretary. But if the machine recount comes back with a margin of .25 percentage points or less, the state will begin a manual recount. Most of the attention is focused on the Senate race, where unofficial election results show Mr. Scott leading Mr. Nelson by just .14 percentage points. A majority of voters in the state cast early ballots and vote by mail, and counting their votes can take time. The tweet also belied the fact that the fires — the Camp Fire in Northern California and the Woolsey Fire in Southern California — did not begin on forested land, but rather on what’s known as the wildland-urban interface, the edges between communities and wildland.