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TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Andrew Gillum, Democratic candidate and mayor of Tallahassee, has entrusted the run of the governor of Florida to Ron DeSantis, a former Republican congressman closely linked to President Trump, saying he is satisfied with a story that told him would have been revealed. 34,000 votes.
Mr DeSantis declared his victory on Election Night more than a week ago and Mr Gillum, 39, announced that he was conceding the race to the US. time. But he came back into the race a week ago, under pressure from unionized staff and allies, after the Florida State Secretary's office declared an automatic recount.
"We have promised to fight until every vote is counted, and we are obviously closing the recount phase by hand," Gillum said in an announcement on Facebook on Saturday afternoon. sides of his wife. "We wanted to take a moment to congratulate Mr. DeSantis on becoming the next governor of the great state of Florida. It was the journey of our lives. "
Mr. Gillum has not yet called the governor elected, said a spokesman for Mr. DeSantis.
The current accounts, after a process of counting the vote assailed by the Republicans, without evidence, as a smokescreen possible against electoral fraud, have also focused on two other races, the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State and race in the United States Senate between Democratic President Bill Nelson and Rick Scott, the Republican governor. The results of these races were still pending.
The race between the two young and energetic politicians – Mr. DeSantis, a Trump sidekick who adopted elements of the president's burning style, and Mr. Gillum, a liberal darling seeking to become the first black governor of Florida – was widely regarded as a substitute battle between opposing ideological visions on the future of the country, the various and progressive, the other conservative and nationalist.
It was also an unexpected match. Neither Mr. Gillum nor Mr. DeSantis were considered potential candidates at the beginning of the primary season. Mr. Gillum defeated a group of rivals including a former member of the House of Representatives and the Mayor of Miami Beach. Mr. DeSantis, after obtaining the endorsement of President Trump, easily rebuffed the State Commissioner for Agriculture, Adam Putnam, who had been considered the likely candidate.
Mr. DeSantis, a former Guantánamo-trained naval lawyer trained at Harvard and Yale, represents the Sixth District, based in Daytona Beach, since 2012, and presented to the Senate in 2016 before giving up his duties after Marco Rubio, outgoing president of the Republican Party. , decided to stand for re-election.
But he gained national notoriety as a dynamic President's advocate on Fox News, where he has appeared dozens of times since the election of Mr. Trump, defending criticism and leading criticism against the Liberals, the media and special advocate Robert S. Mueller.
In Mr. Gillum, the voters were presented in different ways with the opposite of Mr. DeSantis. As an elected Tallahassee for 23 years, he has adopted liberal positions – such as higher corporate tax rates, the legalization of marijuana, enhanced gun control and Medicare for all – which has delighted the activist base of the Democratic Party. But they also provided Mr. DeSantis with more than enough material to portray him as a radical leftist, out of step with a state of quintessence.
This was not the only racial episode of the race. In August, a group of white supremacists based in Idaho addressed Florida voters with racist automated appeals including a man purporting to be Mr. Gillum expressing himself in the exaggerated emphasis of his work. a minstrel performer, while monkeys screamed in the background. Both campaigns denounced the calls, which drew attention to Mr DeSantis' blunder.
Negative attention to Mr. DeSantis' campaign was lifted in the weeks leading up to the election when he appointed Susie Wiles, a veteran Republican agent, to the position of Campaign Director. He worked tirelessly to define Mr. Gillum as a supporter of "ideological radicalism" and a "George Soros left-wing program" that was out of step with the average Floridian.
And he campaigned promising to defend the interests of veterans, defend a scholarship program that remunerates low-income students in private schools and appoint "constitutional" judges to the Supreme Court of Canada. State, a promise similar to that made during the election campaign. in 2016 by Mr. Trump.
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