Florida Governor Election Gets Ugly

MIAMI — Dog-whistle charges. Black minstrel-voice robocalls. A claim that a candidate “justified slavery.” In the contest for Florida governor, race dominates the race. Whether measured by rhetoric, tactics or strategy, the campaign between Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum is shot-through with racial politics, putting the nation’s rawest and most sensitive issue at the center of one of the hardest-fought elections of the year.