Andrew Gillum

In spite of the fact of my dad telling me that if I did well, I could go to the military, I said, 'No, I want to go to college.'

I'm not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I'm simply saying the racists believe he's a racist.

The job of the governor of the state of Florida is to do what is in the best interest of the people of the state of Florida.

Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?

My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.

I do know that I don't want to see anybody legitimately have the excuse that they are not voting because their votes don't count. That can't happen - whether I'm the one impacted by that vote or not.

I've been elected for 15 years without so much as a smidgen of a stain on my public record. I'm confident that I've done nothing wrong. Nothing unethical and nothing illegal.

People do want to see themselves reflected. They'll never believe that Gwen Graham, Philip Levine, Chris King, or Jeff Greene will be a better representative of their interests than I will be.

I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.

I actually believe that Florida and its rich diversity are going to be looking for a governor who's going to bring us together, not divide us. Not misogynist, not racist, not bigots.

Florida wants to get married. We want to stop this every-two-year or every-four-year dating process where, in between those election cycles, investments in our state diminish.

Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it.