This. The “R's” have a super-majority in the House and a near super-majority in the Senate.
There would be total deadlock if Gillum was elected. That wouldn't be all bad.
He won’t have any way to screw stuff up.
Even Lawton Chiles, the last Dem governor, just really sat back and had a nice stay. He died just a couple of weeks before Jeb Bush was to be inaugurated.