Fine poll, though it looks like an outlier, similar to the senate poll. Gillum, however, seems to run a pretty solid campaign while DeSantis is a terrible candidate. Putnam would have been stronger.
I just hope that when he wins, Gillum and friends can stop Scott from stealing 3 state Supreme Court seats with their illegal midnight appointment scheme. Otherwise Republicans are going to be emboldened to run wild with legislative gerrymandering in 2021.
Do their judges terms end at the same time? I read that towards the end of his term Governor Lawton Chiles and Governor-elect Jeb Bush agreed on a joint nominee to avoid controversy in 1998.
The thing is, Republicans know it's unconstitutional. They tried amending the constitution in 2014 to allow "preemptive appointments," but it failed to be approved. The problem is that you have to rely the state Supreme Court acting fast, and the justices who are retiring have to rule on this basically on their very last day. None of this should be possible but it's hard to rule it out given how f'd up some courts can be.
Read this if you're interested:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=296310.msg6410254#msg6410254Democrats already tried to file a lawsuit to prevent this, but the Supreme Court said nothing has happened yet so there is nothing to rule on. Scott has already initiated the process though, which he did so by requesting a list of justices to appoint, so Dems filed another lawsuit, which is pending.
It may even be moot in the end since Rick Scott stacked the judicial vacancy commission with cronies, so Gillum might only receive a list full of right wing justices and have no other options.
