Andrew Gillum, Florida’s Democratic nominee for governor, on Sunday condemned attempts to “weaponize race” days after Florida voters began receiving robocalls mocking his African-American heritage. “We can have a challenge between ideas and around what we think the people of the state of Florida deserve,” Gillum said Sunday. “What I don’t want this race to turn into is a race of name-calling.”“I want to make sure that we don’t racialize, and frankly, weaponize race as a part of this process,” he said. “People are taking their cues from [DeSantis], his campaign and from Donald Trump. And we saw in Charlottesville that that can lead to real, frankly, dangerous outcomes.”

Source: Huffington Post September 02, 2018 19:07 UTC