Gwen Graham

but all of this is about 28

... take Gwen Graham and I out of this, my running mate for lieutenant governor.

Right.

Remove us as the candidates.

I've done everything.

And, um, and they of course are, are endorsing David Jolly and Gwen Graham.

And, um, I just, you know, come on.

We don't, we, we...

Yeah, it's interesting.

So Gwen Graham is my running mate-

Right

...

Please go on social media, say, "There's this governor's race.

Consider being a part of it, voting for David Jolly and Gwen Graham."

Awesome.

We'll leave it there.

There's been this argument that it's an all white ticket, um, on the Democratic side, whereas you have Hispanic running mate for Donalds on the Republican side.

Jolly, a former Republican, um, you know, picked Gwen Graham, who is another moderate, a former congressperson, as his running mate.

Um, you know, and kind of making the play kind of the Republican light I-4 corridor kind of play, um, that Democrats been trying to make for years.

But in this case, given the issues that, uh, Republicans are having nationwide with the, the war, the economy, uh, President Trump being a lightning rod with independents and so on, um, you know, Jolly's making some headwinds.

The survey tests the full tickets.

Donald and former state Senator Brian Avila against jolly and former Congresswoman Gwen Graham.

Donald's takes 87% of Republicans.

Jolly takes 85% of Democrats.

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the Republican side, you know, where you have a Cuban American lieutenant governor candidate and then, uh, Gwen Graham on the Democratic side who's white.

And so, yeah, they, they might be able to peel some off.

Uh, there are still a lot of concerns about cost of living, and let's not forget that when, you know, Trump ran in twenty-four, he ran a lot on the cost of living question.

We're gonna get into the resume here in just a second.

He is the GOP nominee for the second congressional district, looking to succeed Neil Dunn, who has held the seat, and he succeeded, if I'm not mistaken, Gwen Graham in her short run after she succeeded Steve Southerland.

Yep.

Did I get that about right?

And, uh, it saddens me the Democrats don't wanna come on the show anymore.

Um, they used to.

There's no reason why they wouldn't, but I still, I still remember Gwen Graham.

She'd sit with Mark Schlackman, Gwen, and, and I sat at a restaurant and I said, "Why won't you come on the program and answer questions? If you can't answer my questions, how in the world are you gonna represent this district, which is made up of people like me, in Congress?" Well, it turns out she didn't last but one term.

you're voting by not showing up and is uh byron donalds the perfect candidate no not at all not at all except when you compare him to jolly then he's far superior so you have to look at the com what what hand were we dealt We were dealt the lousy hand.

We have David Jolly and Gwen Graham.

And people don't remember Gwen Graham, but she was from up here in my district.

And when she was the representative in the House, she helped Obama write the food safety bill, which eliminated labeling of country of origin from all meat.

Yep.

I was like, I, I didn't get that vibe from him, that he was-

And Gwen Graham, who he picked for the LG, is just a total, like an old school-

That's right

... kind of moderate Democrat.