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Reasons adding into why you decided to leave the republican party. what is important here, i think, just for everyone to understand. you know this better than anybody. this, if this goes to a recount, this is just mandated. its mandated by law. this isnt triggered by one person deciding anything. this is just how it works. theyre still just getting that final first count before anything happens. adam, how do you think this is going to play out in the next 48 hours? >> well, its a little differen...

Writes cool was lost. the moderator was not spared any venom. in between daggers and accusations when policy was actually discussed, two candidates on the opposite ends of the spectrum left little in the middle for voters to chew on. polls still show gillum with a lead over his opponent. hes 4.5 points ahead of desantis. joyce, steve and the table are here. what do you make of this race? >> this has been a republican state at that level for so long. >> i worked for a past republican governor. an...

Saying, fear mongering, doing fear mongering, politics of fear. thats what hes going with. and andrew gillum, if elected would be the first african-american governor of florida running in this inspiring campaign. really authentic and talking about the issues that people care about. young people. you talk to young people in the state who are in college and university coming out to support him. and theyll tell you exactly why they support andrew gillum. and they are energized and totally all in fo...

Election is, its not time to monkey around. uses the word monkey. which, of course, is deliberately racist against an african-american opponent. but think about the small c corruption of the republican party. florida is a state with 21 million people. it has very nearly a $1 trillion economy. and desantis argument to put him in charge of that as the chief executive is that he is a faithful, obedient drone to the maximum leader donald trump. what an absurdity. what a stupid proposition. and so wh...

It would make sure those charged with oversight of the executive branch to assess whether theres been damage and the extent of that damage has been. otherwise we have this big gaping hole in our national security moving forward. >> the hypocrisy is staggering, but you do only have to quote donald trump to explain whats wrong with the conduct. >> theres always a tweet. candidate trump would have called for president trump to be locked up for this. this country, our congress, the fbi has spent a l...

Youve made appearances at four of david horitzs freedom center events, four separate times. among his statements, quoting here. this country is only serious race war is against whites. >> he hasnt even made those statements then. >> the first statement was made -- >> how the hell am i supposed to know every single statement somebody makes? >> mr. gillam, ill give you a chance to respond. >> my grandmother used to say a hit dog will holler. im simply saying the racists believe hes a racist. >> if...

He made that moment go viral, which is incredibly difficult to do in a debate. and were not talking about anything else but were talking about how skillful andrew gillum was able to do that, to pull that out in a way that was incredibly smart. >> steve schmidt, the question of race and trumpism, nothing surprises me about the lack of courage from republicans, but there are a handful of republicans about whom im still disappointed that they dont speak bought donald trumps flagrant racism. i get w...

Say in his debate last night, im not calling you a racist, but the racists think youre on their side. david duke after donald trump announced hes going to make the word nationalist great again. journalists asked him if this is white nationalism. it is as there is no ethnic or racial group in america more nationalist than white americans. this is the conversation about race from the point of view of the racist. and gillum just went there and didnt let this sort of undercurrent of -- you cant even...

Karine jean-pierre is a senior adviser to moveon.org. youve been on the ground around the country. this race seems like one that is -- i dont want to jinx anything, but trending in the democrats favor. describe what youve seen going on. >> yeah, it really is. im sure you talked about donald trump won the state by one or two percentage points. its a very red state. its the big battle ground state in the presidential election. i think whats happening is, in this particular election is desantsis ha...