While Florida tells its accounts, Andrew Gillum publicly takes a stand on the right to vote

"Florida is changing. It is amazing that Gillum was about to win, something I would not have imagined 10 years ago, "said Dr. Dunn, a retired professor at Florida International University. "That does not mean that racism has left Florida, the state is still a daughter of Confederation, but the balance of power is changing. Running is less of a problem than in the past. "

Mr. DeSantis, for his part, denied that race played a part in his campaign and called on Mr. Gillum to concede. Governor Rick Scott, mired in a recount in his own campaign for the Senate with Democrat Bill Nelson, also called for a swift end to the recount.

The same was true of President Trump, who echoed Mr. Scott's accusations of improper voting. "The Florida elections should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis because a lot of new ballots have come out of nowhere and many ballots are missing or counterfeit. An honest count of votes is no longer possible – ballots are massively infected. We have to go there the night of the elections!, Tweeted the president on Monday.

"You seem nervous," replied Gillum on Twitter.

Nevertheless, Mr. Gillum has raised his own claims regarding voting disparities. He cited a report that a handful of voters from Bay County, a predominantly white region of the Gulf devastated by Hurricane Michael last month, were allowed to vote by email or fax, while rigorously.

"In Bay County, they accepted votes by e-mail," he told his audience at Boynton Beach, 20 km south of the president's golf course and at the Winter White House, Mar-a -Lago. "It was a deep red county, a county I had competed for, even though I knew it was a deeply Republican territory. But they want to interview a man or a woman over here who stays up for 30, 45 minutes or an hour?

Mr. Gillum's penchant for repression has created a particularly deep connection between the mayor and the African-American Floridians, who represent about 13% of the state's registered voters.

But we still do not know how he is going in this direction. Mr. Gillum will finish his term as mayor of Tallahassee later this month; he has not ruled out seeking re-election as governor and plans to play the role of national champion in the fight against the removal of voters and the withdrawal of the right to vote, which he considers as the fight Central for civil rights of the Trump era, according to half a dozen friends and associates.