Because campaigning against a Black Marxist is tantamount to being accused of racism.
I hope you're wrong about DeSantis. However, I've seen many comments like that from FL FReepers for the past several weeks... that DeSantis has been wimping out, lest he be accused of racism. If that's true, I'm appalled. I really thought DeSantis had more cohones...
Let’s see the internals on those polls. It’s a safe bet to subtract 10 percentage points from any left wing source.
That means Gillum +2 and Nelson -5.