world works as a sitting mayor, a veteran, someone with a great education, but there s nothing like this process for putting you in front of so many different kinds of people, and you learn from them every day. chris: before we go, we would like to give you a chance, a final 30, 45-second closing statement. the floor is yours, sir. great. thanks, everybody, for being such a great audience. i suppose i wouldn t be doing my job if i didn t begin by saying if you like what you heard and you want to learn more, an hour goes by fast, i hope you ll go to pete for america.com and learn more about our campaign and my positions. look, what we re trying to do here is different. because the moment that we re in is different. i get that a millennial, midwestern mayor is not what leaps to mind when you think about a prototypical candidate for president. but i also think we re living if it s hard to figure out what s going on right now, it s because we are living on one of
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
together if you were leading the state? first of all, the governor s job is do what is in the best interests of the people of the state of florida. the president came on the eve of this storm impacting our state and decided that he wanted to attack me as a sitting mayor who sits right now in the eye of the storm. and what i encouraged is that the governor and not the governor, but the president take the high road, that the candidate for governor take the high road that what we need from them is leadership. not partisanship. we want a commander in chief. do you see a path to working with him? i m prepared to work with him if he is prepared to work with us. i ve said it along the trail and obviously i ll say it today. i am absolutely prepared to work with the president for the benefit of the people of our state. i think that is what you have to do. but what we can t do is subside into partisanship and division and unfortunately send cchosen .
examples to the rest of the country in terms of where we want to see things go. it s pretty ugly. i ve been covering these stories for a long time. a lot of the cops in new york think the mayor threw them under the bus, if you will. i don t remember ever seeing a sitting mayor walk through a corridor and police officers there, especially in a sensitive moment after two police officers were shot and killed, assassinated, murdered, they turned their backs on a sitting mayor. this is the largest city, new york city. have you ever seen anything like that, cedric? i don t think any of us have. but here s the thing, without placing blame anywhere and on anyone, there are a lot of hurt police officers in that city who saw two of their brothers go down in an assassination. and it s hurtful to all of us across this country as well. you have a mayor who s working hard to work with his police department, to work with his community. and i think what we have to ask of the police there and of th
on the other hand, i don t think any of us should apologize for being highly critical of the effort of the last two years, i believe largely for political reasons to demonize the best police department in america. should those police officers have turned their backs on a sitting mayor in new york? you know, i can t put myself in a position of a police officer who has been under enormous strain. and by the way, i spoke with police officers before this horrible attack who told me that there were credible threats against all of them. threats where they were going to be followed home from their station houses to their homes and attacked there. and then this act owe occurred, this assassination. this reacting and i can say today that i have no doubt that they are going to come together regardless of whether or not they love the mayor or not, they are going to listen to the commissioner, they are going to protect the people of this city