Will lightning strike twice in the South? Andrew Gillum campaigns in Trump country

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🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Andrew Gillum is the mayor of Tallahassee and he's attempting to do something never attempted by a black person in Florida: Be elected governor. But he's got to get through the primary first.

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0:06.2	Introducing Zeel. I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Cape Up.
0:17.0	Andrew Gillum is the mayor of Tallahassee and he's attempting to do something never done by a black person in Florida, be elected
0:25.2	governor, but he's got to get through the primary first.
0:28.4	Still, when he talks about the Democratic Party and his particular quest, he sounds very familiar.
0:34.6	He sounds like Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia.
0:39.1	Here for yourself, right now.
0:45.0	Mayor Gillum, thank you very much for being on the podcast. Thank you brother. I appreciate the opportunity, Jonathan.
0:48.0	So you are the mayor of Tallahassee, Florida.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:52.0	And are you term limited?
0:54.0	I am not.
0:55.0	No, I've been on the council for 12 years.
0:58.0	I'm now in my 15th.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	The youngest person ever elected. to the council and now you're now you
1:06.4	said in your 15th year I'm in my 15th year and you're not term limited as mayor
1:10.8	not term limited my term expires in November, but I could run again, but I will not be running again, obviously.
1:17.0	Why would you give up the security of being mayor of the capital of Florida to run to be the governor of Florida.
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