The Governors Race in Florida Takes A Racist Turn
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Ron DeSantis is the Republican candidate for Governor in the state of Florida. He's running against Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum. On Wednesday, DeSantis says Florida doesn't want to "monkey it up" by electing Gillum. It's an obvious slur that is straight from the Trump playbook. We talk about what impact that could have on the race and how Gillum's politics will play in Florida.
White House Counsel Don McGahn got the boot. Trump announced that McGahn is departing the White House. The only problem is.... Trump didn't tell McGahn before he tweeted about it. Sloppy in all aspects.
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| 1:07.5 | And things get off to an ugly start in Florida with a total racist slur by the Republican candidate against Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum. |
| 1:19.3 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:21.1 | Happy Thursday. |
| 1:23.5 | Can you believe it? |
| 1:24.2 | Here we go already. |
| 1:25.7 | August 30. |
| 1:29.8 | Only two more days before the Robert Mueller investigation shuts down, says Rudy Giuliani. We'll see how that works out. What do you say? Good to see you |
| 1:37.3 | today. Thank you for joining us. So much to talk about in Trump world as always. and we'll bring it to you from our little perch |
| 1:45.5 | right in the heart of the action here in Washington, D.C. Our studio in Capitol Hill, |
| 1:51.1 | where we have our eye on what's going on at the White House, of course. What's going on? |
| 1:56.9 | The latest with the Odyssey, if you will, the final memorials and remembrances of Senator |
| 2:03.8 | John McCain. His body will be flown to Washington today in order to lie in state in the United |
| 2:09.0 | States Capitol under the United States Capitol Rotunda tomorrow. Also, the president |
| 2:15.6 | taking credit for the great job that the United States did down in Puerto Rico. |
| 2:22.9 | And yes, the Florida governor's race off to an ugly start yesterday with a racist epithet coming from the Republican candidate for governor, Trump's guy, Ron DeSantis. So much to talk about so much you are |
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