Democrats must really want to see DeSantis win.
They are creating a "racist" comment out of nothing. One would have to go back to Theodore Bilbo to prove this.
They are also helping to shape the image of Gillum being a whiner and a snowflake. Gillum, to his credit, has left this issue alone, but his "help" can't stop running their mouths, claiming DeSantis is a "racist", helping define the campaign in terms that will not help Gillum.
Gillum has only one path to victory; to focus like a laser on the economic issues and REAL civil rights issues that affect working class Floridians and below, of both races, culminating with the mother of all turnout efforts. He has a message; it's controversial, but it touches real bread-and-butter needs and crap like this works only to abscure it and trivialize his campaign. But keep it up, keep making threads like this, so you can be right while helping your candidate lose.
Strongly disagree that the comment isn't a racist dog whistle, agree that Gillum shouldn't complain that DeSantis is racist. Voters don't like when a candidate whines about being a victim, it makes them look weak. Deal with your personal problems on your own time, we want to hear about how you'll deal with our problems. I don't care about your hurt feelings no matter how justified they are. And like you said, it derails the whole framing of the campaign in a way that would hurt Gillum.
I don't think it hurts him if some people whine about DeSantis on Atlas or twitter though. And the whole hullabaloo has helped his fundraising.
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