look at what voters are saying. reporter: aaron runs a barbecue food truck in one of the most important states on the midterm map. and he thinks floridians are sick and tired of both republicans and democrats. i think people are pretty much hammered with politics. reporter: political fatigue could be a big problem especially for the two candidates for governor who won their primaries by appealing to the bases of their respective parties. i believe we re going to win this not by capitulating on what we believe. reporter: on the left is andrew gillum, the mayor of tallahassee. he won his primary with the support of bernie sanders, calling for abolishing i.c.e. in its current form and plugging for a multi state medicare plan for all. he believes the portfolio will attract voters of all stripes. i actually think we talked about the issues through the primary and will in the general that whether you re an independent or a reasonable thinking republican or a democrat, that you ca
andrew gillian who could become florida s first black governor. this race is tight. polls show it s likely within the margin of error and there are many political experts that view this as perhaps the most important contest on the 2018 map and because you got two rising political stars who won their respective primaries by appealing to their bases both the left and the right. but in florida, which is perhaps the biggest swing state in america, it could be those voters in the middle that decide who the state s next governor is. aaron runs a barbecue food truck in one of the most important states on the midterm map and he thinks floridians are sick and tired of both republicans and democrats. i think people are pretty much hammered with politics. reporter: political fatigue could be a big problem and especially for the two candidates for governor who won their primaries by appealing to the bases of their respective parties. i believe we are going to win
ryan noble joins us live from tampa. ryan, what are voters telling you? reporter: fred, it s very important to point out that even though both ron desantis the republican and andrew gillum the democrat were reaching out to the base of their respective parties, both the right and the left, florida is really the biggest swing state in america. it could be the voters in the middle that decide who win this is governor s race. he runs a barbecue food truck on the mid-term map. he thinks floridians are sick and tired of both republicans and democrats. i think people are hammered with politics. political fatigue could be a problem for the two candidates for governor who won primaries by appealing to the bases of their respective parties. i believe we are going win not by capitulating on what we believe on the left is andrew gillum,
live on cnn. on one side andreu gillum, considered a rising star in the democratic party. on the other republican ron desantis, a candidate who has openly embraced president trump and his policies. both hoping to woo voters in one of the most highly anticipated raced of 2018 and ryan nobles is joining us now from the cnn debate site. ryan, set the scene for us in the sunshine state. reporter: well, ana, no doubt we ll see two candidates who have very different opinions on any range of issues on that debate stage tonight. ron desantis, a conservative republican, andrew gillum, a progressive democrat by any measure. tonight they should be appealing to the middle of the road voters here in florida that could determine who the next governor is. aaron ward runs a barbecue food truck in one of the most
reporter: yeah, that s right, jake. you can see behind me, folks here preparing for this storm, filling sandbags, but even while they prepare for this storm, they really can t escape politics. as you mentioned, ron desantis, the republican candidate for governor, the former congressman, he and the republican party still running ads here, critical of the mayor of tallahassee, andrew gillum, democratic nominee for governor, because of his leadership in prior storms. democrats say those attacks are unfair, but they really show just how high the stakes are in this race for governor between two candidates from opposite sides of the political spectrum, battling over the vote in one of the most important swing states in america. aaron ward runs a barbecue food truck in one of the most important states on the midterm map, and he thinks floridans are sick and tired of both republicans and democrats. i think people are pretty much hammered with politics. reporter: political fatigue could b