Nuclear option?

Hillary Clinton To Stump For Andrew Gillum In Florida Governor’s Race

The Tallahassee mayor confirmed that Clinton would be joining him for an event in South Florida next month.

@ HuffPo

Just kidding. Sort of.

O Florida. Got me thinking: where are the Parkland kids on the state races? I googled and instead I see this Politico roundup reporting it's messy down there as usual. Interesting that DeSantis has to dance around Trump to look pro-Puerto Rico instead and has to rail against use of the N-word by a donor. And that Gillum has to basically hire entire new messaging and staff for the general election to replace those from the primary and there's a Republican Parkland Dad out there making waves about Gillum not dissing the sheriff....

I can see now that Hillary would probably help, she fits in with her traditional Hillary the moderate, pro-Israel and stuff like that, doubt the crazed right view of Hillary as raging liberal gets much play down there.

Deep staters beware! Soros & his friends after "the holy grail"! 

Progressive billionaires fall for Florida’s Gillum

His backers hope the Democratic gubernatorial candidate could excite the Obama coalition of minority and progressive voters ahead of the 2020 presidential race.

By Maggie Severns & Marc Caputo @ Politico.com,  10/01/2018 05:06 AM EDT

[...] he was the only one of five Democratic candidates who didn’t have either a family legacy in politics or millions of dollars of his own to fund his race.

But Gillum’s financial fortunes changed sharply after he sat down in early May with the preeminent angel funder of the progressive movement, billionaire George Soros, in California’s Berkeley Hills.

At the Claremont Club & Spa, according to multiple people familiar with the meeting, Gillum and Soros had a sprawling after-dinner conversation about Gillum’s plans to turn out progressive and non-white voters and then, if he won, to expand Medicaid, recognize the threat of man-made climate change and enact gun control legislation after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida.

Plus, he said, he could help Democrats in 2020 in a state that’s considered a must-win for Republicans.

“Florida is the holy grail,” Gillum told Soros, according to one of the people familiar with the meeting [....]

“He has great potential to reassemble the Obama coalition, which would be significant this year, next year, and significant in 2020,” said San Francisco donor Steve Phillips, who said he’s been “allies and friends” with Gillum for the past decade. “This really is a case study and a shining example of how to win elections in a multi-racial electorate that’s getting more diverse every day.”

Heading into the final weeks of Florida’s gubernatorial election, Gillum has attracted a flock of billionaires. His political committee has brought in $3.8 million from people affiliated with the Democracy Alliance of big donors, out of a total of $9.6 million. And the money is still coming in: California billionaire Tom Steyer pledged $5.2 million to Gillum on Wednesday. [....]