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Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, is the projected winner of the Democratic Governor’s race in Florida. He would be Florida’s first African-American Governor. Gillum had the support of Bernie Sanders. One part of his platform is raising taxes to pay for education.
Gillum joins Stacey Abrams, the African-America candidate for Governor of Georgia as an expected statewide winner in a Southern State
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Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum shocks Democratic rivals, wins nomination for governor
BY STEVE BOUSQUET AND ELIZABETH KOH @ MiamiHerald.com, August 28, 2018 09:32 PM
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 3:24am
The problem is with 4 candidates in the race Gillum only got 34% of the vote. Graham got 31%. That was the problem with the republican primary and I worry it will a problem for democrats in 2020. The strongest candidate might not win. I wish we could go to a ranked voting system.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 3:54am
You got a good point especially when I look at the fact that he undoubtedly got the boost over Graham from extreme popularity and extreme turnout in just Miami Dade and Broward, while in the main election he's got to win a lot of other less liberal districts. It's clear he's on that, though, that he gets that, when his main talking point upon winning, which the Herald is stressing is: I want to be governor of all the people, even Republicans
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 4:31am
Yup:
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 4:58am
Also did worst in fundraising. Nonetheless, initial accounts had him as a pretty inspiring speaker, so possible we got lucky or the system allows some needed shakeup that wouldn't happen otherwise.
(having a glass-half-full moment - please bear with me, this is as unusual for me as for others...)
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 6:26am
Within 24 hours of the Florida Governor ‘s race DeSantis talks about “monkeying this up” by electing Gillum
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-andrew-gillum-monkey-this-up_us_5b86ad7ae4b0162f471e75da
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 3:42pm
Trump slams Florida primary winner Gillum as 'failed socialist mayor'
@ Politico.com, 08/29/2018 08:45 AM EDT
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 1:58am
Gillum: Don’t ‘weaponize race’
By Aubree Eliza Weaver @ Politico.com, 09/02/2018 12:56 PM EDT
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/02/2018 - 9:11pm