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Florida Primary Election Analysis

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum’s upset victory in Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary was the big surprise last night, as election results came in.

 

Sen. Bernie Sanders-endorsed Gillum had trailed No. 3 or 4 out of the five democratic gubernatorial candidates in most polls approaching Election Day. The self-proclaimed "only non-millionaire in the race" took the nomination in a single-percentage-point edge over the frontrunner, former Congresswoman Gwen Graham.

 
The WGCU News team brought you updates throughout Election Night, and now, the morning after, WGCU's John Davis sits down with Florida Gulf Coast University political scientist Dr. Roger Green for a look back at last night's winners and losers — and what the results will set up for the November General Election.

Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
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