this race is racialized no matter what. this is a matter of respect. there are always people telling us, you don t respect because you don t say president trump. that s why i always do. because that s correct. the person worked hard to get that office. you call them by their name, mayor gillum. what you just showed of that video of ron desantis, do you know who he reminded me of? now justice brett kavanaugh. they are running a race war. it is scorched earth. if desantis wins, it means he won through hate. they are ginning up a lot of anger and a lot of hate. if hate is what motivates white voters to come out and vote on mass for ron desantis, that says a lot about florida. that says a lot about white people in general, and that says a lot about our country. when you put that in relation to
what the republican party is doing, they are running a race war campaign. they don t care about the black vote. they are trying to maximize every ounce of the white vote here in florida. the truth of the matter is there is a pathway to victory there. it is a scorched earth pathway. that s the race that they re running. it is interesting to that very point. this race was racialized from the beginning. let me just play you one back and forth. this is a little bit long, but i will play you two sound bytes. gillum calling him by his first name and desantis s response. i met him for the first time the other night and all of a sudden without invitation, he was calling me andrew. between the two of us, he quit his job in congress. but i m a sitting mayor, and he