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Primary victim in florida's race the knee-jerk narrative repeated by ron desantis and many in the media has been the tried and true bernie sanders progressive. #democrats at war. indeed the vermont senator did endorse gillum about a month out from the primary for with which the gillum campaign was thankful since it brought much needed attention at a time they were down in the polls. however, like all easy narratives this one misses the mark. gillum endorsed hillary clinton in the 2016 democratic primary and was a delegate for her at the democratic convention. this narrative also ignores all of...

Cognizant sort of black organizations filled in the gap? >> it was very important. because when black organizations have people on the ground, they know exactly what the black community needs. and what how to voice those issues and how to voice those concerns. because the jones campaign ignored many black vendors who approached them who ran the randall wolfen, the mayor of birmingham, there were a lot of people involved in his campaign who approached the jones campaign and said hey, let us work for you. their bids went upon deaf ears, that's an example of how some of us were disengaged from th...

Was done by black pac and will vote and the naacp was important and it made him win. it made doug jones the senator-elect of alabama. but a lot of those votes are concentrated in congresswoman terry sewell's district. a lot of those votes on the state legislature level and the state senate level are concentrated in black districts. it has been gerrymandered in such a way that even when black voters flex their power and show the power of their voice, they're still underrepresented in the state senate and the state house. and so i think in order for the democratic party to really achieve some pa...

And his base out in the elections he's not on the ballot. >> but here's where i would disagree with you, chris. donald trump is getting his base out, but they're not a majority, right? donald trump is not a majority president, right? donald trump is an accidental president. and when you look at wisconsin, when you look at pennsylvania, when you look at michigan, he didn't win a majority, he didn't come close to a majority. in fact, he performed -- you know, barack obama would have beat him in all of those places. what'd he get in florida? 49%. mitt romney got 49% and lost in florida. this is a...

People that will bring these changes to fruition. >> you are polling ahead which is a surprise. even democrats were grumbling when you started to rise in the poll. they said well, a more traditional candidate is what florida democrats nominate, somebody moderate, somebody more close to issues to the republicans. and at the same time you're being characterized, which i find amusing, that you are a product of bernie sanders, that you came from his revolutionary movement. you did thank him for endorsing you in august. it was helpful to you that he endorsed you. but what do you make of that? tom s...