GILLUM CONCEDES: “We could not be prouder of the way we ran this race...We recognize that we didn’t win this tonight.”
Conversation
“Earlier this evening I called Mr. Rom DeSantis,” Gillum says, as crowd boos. Says he still believes in his platform and praises voters for passing Amendment 4.
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Gillum. “Y’all, I want you to encourage you not to give up. I want to encourage you not to give up the fight.” Says he still plans to be “on the front lines.”
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Gillum: “We still have to be willing to show up every single day and demand a seat at the table.”
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Gillum: “I still believe and I still trust the voters. We may not have all shown up...”
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Crowd at Gillum party at FAMU waited through a deluge of rain and trickling results. They are holding up phones and filming, hugging, praying. A few tears.
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Gillum on the day after Election Day: “Are we going to wake up and bask in sorrow and defeat? Or are we going to get up and reassert ourselves at the mission at hand?”
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Gillum thanks volunteers, notes “difficult” task he had set for himself. “I sincerely regret that I couldn’t bring it home for you,” he says, choking up and pausing for a moment to compose himself.
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