Andrew Gillum Quotes
I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.
Gillum, Andrew. Second Florida Gubernatorial Debate. Leadership Florida, 24 Oct. 2018.
There have been few modern politicians who would be so firm against negative campaigning by members of his own party. In reality, although Roosevelt was very popular amongst the people, he was never a favorite of the party politicians. For example, see {585078}.
He was the only candidate who was not visciously attacked and slandered by the others, and he did no attacking himself. However, he simply did not attract the voters as did the other candidates who were so negative about their opponents. The Republican party primary voters were so insistent on political party purity that most of the candidates were reduced to the lowest forms of debate and standards of veracity. All the candidates were weakened and diminished by that form of negative primary process. Mitt Romney finally won the nomination but had been bruised badly by the Republican primary election. He last the general election badly.
At that time, most of the leading Republicans practiced negative campaigning with vicious personal attacks that were often untrue. He was the only one of the 9 candidates who did not engage in the technique. He came in close to last.
At the time political parties and some candidates had their own newspapers and attacked their opponents through those rather than directly themselves which would have been seen as gross and undignified, Slander and attacks have been a part of American politics since its inception. The degree and extent reached its pinnacle in the early 21st century.
Andrew Demese Gillum is an American former politician who served as the 126th mayor of Tallahassee. He served as a Tallahassee city commissioner from 2003 until 2014, first elected at the age of 23.
