Trump Goes Full Racist On Andrew Gillum In Monday Twitter Meltdown

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With around a week to go until the midterm elections, President Donald Trump is keeping his finger on the pulse of some important races across the country. He’s now offered another endorsement of Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, who’s running against Democrat Andrew Gillum.

He said:

‘In Florida there is a choice between a Harvard/Yale educated man named Ron DeSantis who has been a great Congressman and will be a great Governor – and a Dem who is a thief and who is Mayor of poorly run Tallahassee, said to be one of the most corrupt cities in the Country!’

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It’s not clear who exactly says Tallahassee is one of the most corrupt cities in the country, if anyone at all. In fact, although crime remains high, the crime rate in the city has gone down while Gillum has been in charge. In 2014, the rate was 5,834 crimes per 100,000 people and by 2017, the rate decreased somewhat to 5,765 crimes per 100,000 people.

DeSantis has claimed that the city has the highest crime rate in Florida, but that’s just not true. The Washington Post cites a number of other cities, from Orlando to Miami Beach, with higher crime rates according to the measurement employed above. There’s even a complicating factor pushing Tallahassee’s numbers up — crimes committed by college students are included in the city’s total, but those students aren’t included in the population total to stack the crime totals up against.

Also, why exactly is it relevant that Ron DeSantis went to Yale? He graduated from that school in 2001, and then he graduated Harvard Law School in 2005. That’s more than a dozen years ago — is the president just trying to make the white guy in the race out to be the smart one and the black guy (Andrew Gillum) out to be the dumb one? Is that seriously the level at which the United States has found its national discourse, again?

Voters have a clear choice heading into the midterm elections next week.

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