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	Podcast:		Morning Joe
	Episode:		A Violent Noise: President Trump Warns of 'Violence' if Dems Take Midterm Elections as Primary Results Yield Major Upsets
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		01:27:03
	Publish Date:		2018-08-29 07:37:40
	Description:		Last night yielded quite an upset in the Florida Gubernatorial Democratic primary as "the progressive," Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, narrowly defeated Gwen Graham, the decidedly more centrist candidate, and presumed winner of the contest. Gillum's win over Graham, whose family has been ingrained in Florida's political sphere for decades, has signaled a veritable call-to-arms for center-standing, legacy candidates running in this year's midterm elections: a lack of boldness begets a lack of votes. This sentiment rings true for Gillum's challenger: Trump-backed Ron DeSantis, who made a name for himself in the state by running a political ad showing DeSantis helping one of his children "build a border wall" of toy bricks and teaching his other child to read with the "Make America Great Again" slogan. What's more, since the President's endorsement of him on December 22 of last year, DeSantis has made an unheard-of 121 appearances on Fox News and Fox Business to bolster his message to the 'MAGA' and Fox base. Florida Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum joins the panel, this morning, to discuss his shocker of a victory, and how he intends to fight fire with fire against Ron DeSantis. On the other side of the country, in the Arizona Senate GOP primary, front-runner Martha McSally defeated former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Kelli Ward, who, in the days before the election, announced that Mike Cernovich -- the Pizzagate propagandist -- would join her bus tour. The decision turned-off many moderate conservatives in the state. McSally will face Democratic nominee, Kyrsten Sinema, a moderate, in November -- both vying for retiring Senator Jeff Flake's seat. But before all of that, on Monday night, President Trump spoke at closed-door meeting with Evangelical leaders. The President reportedly told those in attendance that if the GOP majority in Congress dissolved, the Democrats "will overturn everything that we've done and they'll do it quickly and violently, and violently. There's violence." He then spoke of the contentious protests perpetrated by members of the anti-fascism group, ANTIFA. It's Wednesday, August 29, 2018. Welcome to Morning Joe.
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