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devastation firsthand. the extent of lives lost as a result of maria is heart-wrenching. ron desantis put out a statement, i m committed to standing with the puerto rican community especially after such a loss of life. significant may be more so with ron de santos who run as the trickiest of trunk candidates who is looking at the politics of puerto rico in florida perhaps. and governor rick scott who spent a great deal of time as governor welcoming puerto ricans in and doing outreach in the puerto rican community because again, just from a political perspective, democrats saw the diaspora as they were coming into florida specifically in and around orlando, and said, these are folks that we can put to the voter rolls and they will be very good and consistent democrats. rick scott has been doing a great deal of work and trying to win those voters over, this
this is where the district was that she represented. she was supposed to run up the score here. you can see this is gillum s color, this dark blue. you see some of the counties he won outright. others he was competitive in. this is just a shocking performance. and what it does, it sets up a very interesting general election here. has the candidate of the democratic base, certainly gillum and insurgents, i think you can call it, who will he run against? against donald trump s endorsed preferred candidate in the republican, ron de santos. he defeats the republican thought put nam is by far more electable than desantis. so democrats will look at him and say this is a very vulnerable republican in a mid-term year in a mid material environment that looks good in a state. it has been a long time since democrats won here but they say he is very beatable. there are some issues in tallahassee. there s an investigation that
day recess, something we can t control. hard to get between a congressman and senator during their recesses. next year it might be slightly easier given so many didn t want to go to those town halls. that s a very fair point. maybe some would like to reconsider their decision. we did have over 12 members. i was out on radio row with francis rooney, a congressman from florida, ron de santos was here, so we re really happy with the members we were able to get. let s face it, the focus is on this new trump administration. that s where the energy and excitement is. matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union. thank you for joining me from cpac. thank you for having me on. completely different news. president obama was sighted today. we ll tell you where. also, the resistance. the national governors association is meeting right now in washington and connecticut governor dan malloy just met with vp mike pence.
the winning democratic candidate comes from the progressive left. the republican from the party s trump-loving right. andrew gillam, the democratic mayor of tallahassee surged to a surprise win in the democratic primary and republican donors thought democrat gwen graham would be the one on the ballot in november. but she would be the middle of the road foil to run against ron de santos. the former jag officer and ubiquitous fox news voice who rode on a trump endorsement came up from a 15-point poll number from behind and look at where he finished. 20 points ahead. instead, he s running against gillum, a progressive, but hardly battle tested. he ll be pitted against desantis who is a trump-hugging republican. the way the state of florida does good. the way the state of florida to be a leader again is not for us