Posted on 08/29/2018 1:30:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democratic gubernatorial opponent Andrew Gillum on Wednesday tied controversial remarks made by his opponent Rep. Ron DeSantis (R) to President Trump's rhetoric while appearing on Fox News.
DeSantis earlier in the day in his own Fox News appearance warned Florida voters not to "monkey this up" by voting for Gillum, a comment that prompted fierce backlash.
During an interview with Fox News host Shep Smith, Gillum said DeSantis was taking a page “directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.”
“Yeah, that part wasn’t lost on me," Gillum said to Smith when asked about the remarks. "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.”
“He thinks that in today’s day and age Florida’s voters are going to respond to that level of derision and division,” he continued. “They’re sick of it.”
"In the handbook of Donald Trump they no longer do whistle calls, they’re now using full bullhorns," Gillum continued when pressed by Smith whether he believed the congressman's remarks were racist or just a figure of speech.
"And what I’ve got to say about that is we got to make sure we stay focused, I think, on the issues that confront everyday people. I’m not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump," he added.
DeSantis, who won the GOP primary Tuesday night, drew considerable pushback for the remarks that were perceived by many as racially charged.
In the interview, DeSantis initially referred to Gillum as "an articulate spokesman for those far-left views" and a "charismatic candidate" after Gillum's stunning Democratic primary victory Tuesday.
But he later launched into an attack on Gillum, a candidate backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), accusing him of embracing a "socialist agenda."
“Let’s build off the success we’ve had on Gov. Scott. The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases bankrupting the state. That is not going to work," DeSantis said.
The Republican’s campaign said in a statement obtained by The Hill that it was "absurd" to claim that he was doing anything other than criticizing Gillum's agenda.
“Ron DeSantis was obviously talking about Florida not making the wrong decision to embrace the socialist policies that Andrew Gillum espouses,” DeSantis communications director Stephen Lawson said in the statement.
“To characterize it as anything else is absurd,” Lawson added. “Florida’s economy has been on the move for the last eight years and the last thing we need is a far-left democrat trying to stop our success.”
Trump, who endorsed DeSantis in the GOP primary, said later on Wednesday that he had "not heard” DeSantis’s controversial remarks about his opponent but said the congressman is "extraordinary."
The real racists here are the ones who took notice of what DeSantis said. I didn’t see a racist slur at all.. my mind does not go there.. but for those who do.. they are the racist ones!
DeSantis needs to say that to the public... make them the ones who are looking for and making it an issue.. and tell them to grow some and get over their racism... are they snowflakes that can’t stand on 2 feet. life is tough for the snowflakes... they never get to the point where they can deal with life!
DeeSantis has been all over this investigation on Trump.. he’s been doing a great job... will miss him in congress...and his good job is why they are after him on any little thing they can find. Don’t feed the animals!
"Ape" as a verb ....... to copy someone, especially the way they behave or speak.
Heh! If a Republican says Gillum APES Ocascio-Cortez's platform would he be a racist?
His best bet is to ignore it and campaign like a man instead of a simpering p#$$y.
Donald Trump showed how that works.
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Agreed. De Santis has no desire to do so, and that is why I personally believe he is blame-free on this one. YMMV.
OTOH, Gillum's DJT tie-in was implicitly intentional, and Gillum is a political bigot.
“Why does the word “monkey” make liberals think “black”?”
Because of their inherent, deeply buried racism. Who else on earth would connect monkey with blacks?
Desantis’ actual words
““Let’s build off the success we’ve had on Gov. Scott. The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases bankrupting the state. That is not going to work,” DeSantis said.”
He was talking about the Florida economy. He didn’t mention his opponent in that at all.
Monkey? I guess the shoe fits his self image.
And no singing “Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.”
When I was a kid, my dad often said, "You kids stop monkeying around!" We knew he meant we were acting like the monkeys we had seen at the zoo. Not a racial thing. Even obama realizes that.
No the formerly dynastic family.. the Grahams have owned the Washington Post and inside DC intelligentsia mouthpieces for the so called “intel community”, and then all of a sudden they went into financial trouble or something and put it up for sale.
The kind of press “power” like the Cox family in Atlanta (the Constitution paper, Cox cable networks and a whole lot esle).
Those Grahams. Bob Graham demo former senator from FL, married into an old Florida family the MacArthur Dairies family.
His daughter Gwen... lost to this commie bernie bot mayor of Tallahassee who is a crook as well.
The panties in a wad... language police have always been on tinterhooks of every word used. They are literally the thought police. And dumber than large sacks of rocks.
Always looking to take offense— because they SELF identify as victims.
the multiple pronouns that MUST be used. Look up Jordan Peterson on his response to Canadian LAW requiring calling people by the pronouns they want to be called by-—whatever they feel that day... male female cis-gender, trans-gender, hermaphrodite, queer, homo.... oops wrong pronoun. Language degradation.
Here’s a new one from yesterday...
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