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Around. so i'm trying not to go directly to the worst possible thing. i think it's an unfortunate choice of words but i don't think it was an intentional dog whistle. >> i agree. i may have used that phrase before. i'm from a small down in south carolina, so i didn't necessarily -- it didn't land wrong for me. i think it's odd that sonny perdue who's a former georgia governor is in florida. it's sort of weird. i think it speaks to the fact that ron desantis has had trouble attracting crowds. gillum has been much better about that. but i do think this race has been imbued with racial dog whistl...

About these allegations from the left that he is racist. >> pushing back as racism absurd congressman is clearly talking about florida not making the wrong decision of embracing gillum's policies. he went on hannity to clarify his comments. >> it has zero to do with race, sean. it has everything to do with whether we want florida to continue to go in a good directions. i'm not going to let the democrats and andrew gillum try obscure a debate about whether his tax increases, his single payer healthcare plan, his desire to abolish ice. >> if you look the policy differences are stark. while desan...

Florida is this idea that we have to have the centrist middle of the road capped in the middle of the road in the center, we'll find enough votes to beat the republicans. meanwhile the republicans in florida ran the base elections inspire in some cases inflame get your voters to the polls, get them passionate and get them to turn out. joke kept being on democrats. now whether they intended to or not, the democratic party is using someone who used that kind of technique that the republicans used but some of the republicans are nervous like wow, gillum has a passionate following. we've got quite...

Seen as a sort of symbol of one approach to democratic general election politics which is don't necessarily try to be the crossover appeal candidate. don't go to the center, do everything you can instead to maximize democratic turnout. get the democratic base excited and they'll turn out and that's how you can win. did we actually see an absolute numbers, did we see a kind of a spike in democratic turnout in a way that sort of justified that strategy? >> well, i can tell you he was certainly the admiral ferret gut candidate, damn the torpedos. it caught on. when i would go around and talk to v...

Bold. clearly it worked last night in florida. and drew gillum benefitted from absolutely juiced democratic turnout in the primary yesterday in florida. 31%, that is way up from turnout for florida democrats in terms of what they posted in the last two midterm primaries. juiced turn yous like that is what democrats are counting on. on the republican side, gillum will face trump backed congressman rondy santis is calling gillum way too liberal for the state of florida. he also told fox news florida shouldn't "monkey it up" by electing mr. gillum. he would be the first ever african-american flor...