It's debate night in Florida (🎶one last tiiime🎶) nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/…
Q1 to DeSantis on pipe bombs sent today. (@DWStweets is in debate hall.) He notes he was at congressional baseball practice where Steve Scalise got shot: "I know firsthand that when we start going down that road, it can be very, very deadly, so I condemn that."
Gillum blames "collapsing of our political discourse" and attacks DeSantis for his ties to Trump: "My opponent, endorsed by him, has run this race very, very close to the Trump handbook, where we call each other names, where we run false advertisements."
And it's just gone more negative from there. Dream Defenders! Hamilton!
Q to Gillum on Hamilton ticket: "I arrived at the theater and received the ticket from my brother...I should have asked more questions to make sure that everything that had transpired was above board"
Gillum claims his brother then gave Jay-Z concert tix to his lobbyist friend in return "We got 99 issues and Hamilton ain't one of them"
Let 'em debate!
DeSantis to Gillum re Florida Commission of Ethics investigation: "Waive all confidentiality. Get all the evidence and statements out there so the voters of Florida can know everything is on the up and up"
Gillum to DeSantis on taxpayer-funded travel as a congressman: "Why don't you being setting an example and release your receipts?" Moderator won't let DeSantis answer (again)
I stopped live tweeting because deadlines but boy oh boy. "Lies!" "Shame on you!" Jeers!
Let them gooooo, let them goooo (at debating)
DeSantis, asked about associations with people who have made fringe-y remarks, gets angry: "How the hell am I supposed to know every single statement someone makes?!...I am not going to bow down to the altar of media correctness." Gillum stands, split screen, agape, smiling
Gillum: "My grandmother used to say a hit dog will holler and it hollered through this room...He's got neo-Nazis helping out through this state...I'm not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I'm simply saying the racists consider him a racist"
DeSantis hammers Gillum on Tallahassee crime rate. Gillum jokes DeSantis might want to reconsider running for governor: "The governor's mansion's in Tallahassee. I would hate for him to be hurt"
DeSantis: "I don’t think it's funny for those murder victims and their families. I don't think it's funny that you make light of crime."
Q to Gillum about how one of his senior campaign advisers lobbies on behalf of Big Sugar. How can he hold polluters accountable? Gillum says he's endorsed by enviro groups, pushed for Tallahassee solar farm, believes in science
DeSantis: "Water is our lifeline." Says water management appointees won't be industry "stooges." (Which...sounds like an indirect jab at Republican Gov. Rick Scott.)
DeSantis on Gillum: "He's the most hostile candidate to Second Amendment rights to law-biding citizens"
Well. That was something.
Running story here: nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/…
