FL-GOV: Gillum raises $3 million in five days

Andrew Gillum fell into money. Ron DeSantis fell off the radar.

In the wake of the racially charged atmosphere that kicked off the general election campaign for Florida governor, the two contenders headed in starkly different directions.

Gillum became a national figure overnight and was interviewed by and mentioned in the national media so frequently that his campaign had trouble tracking his mentions as the cash rolled in: $3 million between Election Day and Sunday, when the Florida Democratic Party’s first African-American nominee for governor appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CNN’s “State of the Union” and MSNBC’s “AM Joy.”

On Wednesday alone, Gillum was mentioned so many times on TV that it gave him the commercial ad-time equivalent of $23.5 million nationally, $3.8 million in the state, his campaign estimated. And the Tallahassee mayor’s likeness was even included this weekend along with 50 black cultural and pop-star figures in the new cartoon video “Feels Like Summer” from the artist Childish Gambino.

In contrast, DeSantis — who won his GOP primary after leveraging his frequent Fox News appearances into a presidential endorsement — was barely on the air, while Gillum even put in an appearance of his own on Fox.


https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/09/04/gillum-raises-profile-and-cash-in-florida-as-desantis-gets-quiet-591214





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