Gillum: ‘I’m Not Going To Get Down In The Gutter With DeSantis And Trump’

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Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum said Wednesday that his Republican opponent Ron DeSantis had used a “bullhorn” when urging Floridians not to “monkey this up” by voting for Gillum, the state’s first African-American gubernatorial nominee.

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  1. Yeah. He played that very deftly. It would demean him to get into a back-and-forth about whether it was deliberate racism. That’s a trap he wasn’t going to fall into. Everyone heard it just fine. He broadens it out to talk about divisive, derisive politics, and he’s on the high ground where you can fight better. You get into bickering with yes you did no I didn’t yes you did and it just drags you down and wastes your time. He’s not stupid and I’m sure he saw this kind of crap would be coming his way. It’s like he came up from the minors and hit a line-drive triple on his first major-league at-bat.

  2. Gutter space is running at a premium in the GOP.

    They all connect directly to the swamp…

  3. DeSantis defended his remark by saying it’s an “old Southern expression.”

    In response, someone on Twitter agreed, noting he was personally very fond of using the even older Southern aphorism “Don’t push Ron DeSantis into the wood chipper.”

  4. That Floridiot hillbilly DeSantis must be going crackers over his redneck.

    All southern expressions…

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