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Florida governor’s race gets down in the gutter
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Contributor | WA Indy |
Last Edited | WA Indy Oct 31, 2018 10:04am |
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Category | News |
Author | Marc Caputo |
News Date | Wednesday, October 31, 2018 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | MIAMI — Dog-whistle charges. Black minstrel-voice robocalls. A claim that a candidate “justified slavery.”
In the contest for Florida governor, race dominates the race.
Whether measured by rhetoric, tactics or strategy, the campaign between Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum is shot-through with racial politics, putting the nation’s rawest and most sensitive issue at the center of one of the hardest-fought elections of the year.
The clash, judging by the candidates’ bios, seemed inevitable |
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