articulate when he faced primary candidate barack obama. so there s several dog whistle there is in what ron desantis said. he then went on laura ingraham s show this week and accepted her notion that andrew gillum should be apologizing to him for calling him for pointing out that this was racist. so the new racism is calling racists racists. go figure. shermichael, when you hear not monkey it up, your reaction? look, i think he could have articulated the differences policy wise between conservatism and more progressive positions. were you offended, though? as a person? of course. this guy went to yale, he went to harvard. you cannot tell me that someone with that type of academic background did not know that using such a term as it related to any african-american would not be perceived as being offensive so of course i m offended by it. i don t think it was the right words to use. he could have articulated his
million non-affiliated voters in florida. that state can go in any direction. if i was mr. desantis, he needs to get in front of this and apologize because he could lose this race if not. i find it interesting, shermichael. we know he went get in front of this and apologize. he s already been defiant and then if you see on day two of the campaign the extremely racist robocalls that came out and he has said nothing. who has said something is rick scott who s running for the united states senate but in this governor s race against a progressive african-american candidate, we have nothing from ron desantis and that s shameful. wish we had more time with both of you. shermichael singleton, don calloway, thank you so much. you can hear more from andrew gillum on the top of the hour on ya a.m. joy, joy reid will be speaking with him in a few minutes. few minutes.
the first, i should say the first african-american democratic nominee for governor. i didn t talk much about trump, we know he is uniquely unqualified. he is dangerous to himself and the country, but we have talked about every day issues confronting people. the truth is that for the communities that we we have to motivate and move and inspire, it has been bad for quite some time for them. you are from that area, the counter argument against him, is it because he is untested? that he was not challenged add issue as he would have been. the dirty laundry didn t come out because they didn t think he would win?
he is a congressman, an iraq war vet, a lawyer, and on the democratic side, an incredibly progressive african-american andrew gillum. we have not seen this type of match up yet, you re going to see it in the next couple months in florida where you have someone from the bernie sanders wing trying to tap into that energy in someone that is tapping into maybe not as bad off as he is in some other states, where do you see this headed? what do you see at being the major issues in this race? well the major issue is a major issue in florida politics
t the state of florida. there is older voters from, they turn out in midterm elections. there is a reason there has not been a democratic elected governor of florida. the candidate that he beat, putnam, was the ultimate establishment. he had been preparing for this for decades, and trump s endorsement overturned that and it speaks to the environment in the republican party. and the 1995 version of this, but it is clear that is not where politics are today. who was the last major democratic to win statewide in the state of florida was barack obama, a young, progressive