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Gillum ties DeSantis 'monkey' comment to Trump rhetoric (It Begins)
The Hill ^ | 08/29/18 | Aris Folley

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."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: commiepropaganda; desantis; gillum; monkey; monkeybusiness; trump
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'I'd like to take this moment to give my opponent a club to beat me with' - Ron DeSantis
1 posted on 08/29/2018 1:30:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

It doesn’t matter they’ll turn anything into a ‘slur’.


2 posted on 08/29/2018 1:31:37 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: yesthatjallen

Who’s monkeying around now ? LOL


3 posted on 08/29/2018 1:31:48 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: yesthatjallen
Gillum's learned well from his mentor Bernie Sanders.

Monkey see, monkey do.

4 posted on 08/29/2018 1:32:51 PM PDT by dead
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To: yesthatjallen

Why does the word “monkey” make liberals think “black”?


5 posted on 08/29/2018 1:32:59 PM PDT by LostPassword
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To: yesthatjallen

“I never implied that my opponent was a monkey. However, if the ears and tail fit, he is more than welcome to characterize himself as such (as he appears to be doing)”.


6 posted on 08/29/2018 1:33:24 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: yesthatjallen

BTT


7 posted on 08/29/2018 1:33:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: yesthatjallen

This is the best the souls to the polls crowd has tired and old


8 posted on 08/29/2018 1:33:55 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: yesthatjallen

Whatever he does, he better not apologize.
He is going to be savaged as it is - if he apologizes he’ll be torn to pieces.


9 posted on 08/29/2018 1:34:03 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: butlerweave

So just which “words” are so offensive that our cultural overlords say that they can’t be used in any context? What lunacy. I am never niggardly in my use of various wqrds The complainers need to up their meds and become aware of Freedom of Speech in America. What poltroons!!!


10 posted on 08/29/2018 1:34:26 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: butlerweave

So just which “words” are so offensive that our cultural overlords say that they can’t be used in any context? What lunacy. I am never niggardly in my use of various words The complainers need to up their meds and become aware of Freedom of Speech in America. What poltroons!!!


11 posted on 08/29/2018 1:34:44 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: yesthatjallen

So I suppose “throwing a monkey wrench” into something cannot be said any longer either, for it will be called “racist”!!!


12 posted on 08/29/2018 1:35:06 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: yesthatjallen

And this is the reason Democrats will lose. In Democrat- radical eyes most words are racist and the American people have had enough.


13 posted on 08/29/2018 1:35:30 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: yesthatjallen

This guy is currently under FBI investigation..he knows he has ZERO chance of winning in November


14 posted on 08/29/2018 1:35:39 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: LostPassword

Inferiority complex?


15 posted on 08/29/2018 1:36:09 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: yesthatjallen

Completely taken out of context but what more can we expect from those who see everything through the prism of race.

Obama is like that and he proved why having a black President just doesn’t work. For whatever reason certain minorities like blacks and Hispanics can’t get past their race. It’s always front and center affecting every thought and decision they make. Only when they can learn to get past this handicap can they be good political leaders. Some have proven it is possible but they are rare and they are never leftists.


16 posted on 08/29/2018 1:36:11 PM PDT by Boomer
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—Whatever he does, he better not apologize.-—

He should just boomerang it back at them. Just say what’s most likely the truth - that his mind just doesn’t go there or think in those terms, and anyone who sees race in the comment is an overly race-obsessed person themselves.


17 posted on 08/29/2018 1:36:28 PM PDT by StoneRainbow68
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To: yesthatjallen
Really. I know and you know that to "Monkey something up" is an old phrase, but why oh why did he hand the a-hole rat demagogs ammunition?
18 posted on 08/29/2018 1:36:47 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I have a feeling that all this feigned outrage about this comment will backfire on the Democrats. People are sick and tired of everything a Republican says is said to be racist, even when there is no obvious racist intention. They have cried racism over so many things that it just gets old after a while.


19 posted on 08/29/2018 1:38:10 PM PDT by grayboots
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To: yesthatjallen

Deep down I think this may cost the DNC even more money.


20 posted on 08/29/2018 1:39:19 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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