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During an interview on Fox News, DeSantis praised Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, as “an articulate spokesman” for those holding “far-left views,” but warned he would be damaging to the state.

“The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a so************************t agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state,” DeSantis said. “That is not going to work. That’s not going to be good for Florida.”

A Fox News Channel host later said on air that the network did not condone DeSantis’s language. In an interview on the network Wednesday afternoon, Gillum suggested that DeSantis was following President Trump’s example.

“Yeah, that part wasn’t lost on me,” Gillum said when asked about DeSantis’s remarks. “It’s very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.”

“If he thinks that in today’s day and age Florida voters are going to respond to that level of division and derision, they’re sick of it,” he added.

Asked about DeSantis’s comments by reporters following an event on drug-free communities at the White House, Trump said he “didn’t hear” the Florida Republican’s remarks but continued to praise him, calling him “extraordinary.”

“He’s an extreme talent,” Trump said.

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