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Sanders-Backed Black Mayor or Trump-Backed Congressman: Which Will Be Florida's Next Governor?

Governing: Florida voters on Tuesday propelled a Trump-endorsed congressman and the African-American mayor of Tallahassee on toward November's general election in the race to replace Rick Scott as governor, setting up a clash of ideologies in the nation's largest swing state.

On the right: U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, a 39-year-old conservative, Harvard-educated Iraq War veteran who rode presidential tweets and FOX News interviews to a resounding primary win over Agricultural Commissioner Adam Putnam.

And on the left: Andrew Gillum, a 39-year-old liberal who with the help of progressive political organizations surged in the last weeks of his campaign to upset a better-funded field.

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