mid-june. june 22nd, the president tweeted an endorsement of desantis. by late july, he was up by 12 points. 827-point swing. now tonight here, desantis running to replace retiring republican governor rick scott, who easily beat easily won the g.o.p. nomination for a senate seat against income of bill nelson, they will set off in november, that is expected to be a tight race. i mentioned andrew gillum on the democratic side. he beat back a challenge for my more moderate candidate. he s a tallahassee mayor. he won after key endorsements from bernie sanders and after an infusion of $650,000 from liberals george soros and tom steyer, who s been pushing for impeachment for a long time. watch that. meanwhile, another important drum factor in arizona tonight, republican senator jeff flake retired because he is at odds with the trump agenda, unlikely that he would get reelected, he decided to retire. he endorsed congress home in martha mcsally.
for more on what we go to now is in florida ed henry standing by live in miami. ed? laura, great to see you. big developments here breaking the sour in florida. the governor s race is going to come down to a dramatic clash between a key ally of president trump, randa santos, against a democrat backed socialist bernie sanders. andrew gillam. it s going to be interesting as we see the democratic party in swing states like this tilt even further left. on the republican side as i mentioned, ron desantis tonight easily beat the state agriculture commissioner adam putnam, where the deciding factor, very clearly was the coattails of the president. the president a short time ago tweeting, this out there about the race such a fantastic win for a ron desantis of the people of the great state of florida, ron will be a fantastic governor onto november. that from the president. look at how dramatic, help have it all the presidents report was preyed in mid-june poling had putnam beating ron desan