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In his primary. as his opponent was being interviewed about his own primary win, trump-backed ron desantis talked about him being a racist dog whistle. >> he has charismatic views and i watched the democratic debates. none of that is my cup of tea, but he performed better than the other people there. so we've got to work hard to make sure we continue, florida, going in a good direction. let's build off the success we had with governor scott. the last thing we need to do is monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. >> fox news issu...

In his primary. as his opponent was being interviewed about his own primary win, trump-backed ron desantis talked about him being a racist dog whistle. >> he has charismatic views and i watched the democratic debates. none of that is my cup of tea, but he performed better than the other people there. so we've got to work hard to make sure we continue, florida, going in a good direction. let's build off the success we had with governor scott. the last thing we need to do is monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. >> fox news issu...

A racist dog whistle. >> he has charismatic views and i watched the democratic debates. none of that is my cup of tea, but he performed better than the other people there. so we've got to work hard to make sure we continue, florida, going in a good direction. let's build off the success we had with governor scott. the last thing we need to do is monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. >> fox news issued an on-air statement after the interview saying it does not condone that language. earlier tonight my colleague lawrence o'donne...

Later made an on-air statement saying they don't condone that language. then last hour, gillum responded. >> that part wasn't lost on me. it's very clear that mr. desantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of donald trump. but i think he's got another thing coming to him if he thinks that in today's day and age florida voters are going to respond to that level of derision and division. they're sick of it. >> joining the table, journalist mara gay, member of the "the new york times" editorial board. rick stengel, under secretary of state for public diplomacy and jennifer rubin,...