He dropped in on community groups, no matter how small, to make personal connections. He cold-called would-be donors who, truth be told, sometimes hung up on him. “I did some things that nobody would ever advise a campaign,” Mr. Gillum said with a laugh on Wednesday, the day after his improbable victory, which he spent making cable news appearances and fielding congratulatory phone calls. Now comes the difficult part, as Mr. Gillum prepares to deal with attacks he avoided in the primary — including over a lingering F.B.I. investigation into Tallahassee City Hall — and with ugly matters of race that emerged hours after his election.

Source: New York Times August 30, 2018 00:41 UTC