Letters

摘要

There was another factor behind Andrew Gillum's loss to Ron DeSantis in last year's governor's race in Florida ("The look-homeward angle", March 9th). Your suggestion is that a strategy of "mining untapped black voters" may have turned white voters away from the charismatic, African-American Mr Gillum, causing him to lose the race. However, around a fifth of black female voters backed Mr DeSantis, the Republican. Nicknamed the "school-choice moms", these women broke racial ranks to vote for Mr DeSantis, who supports providing poor and working-class parents with alternatives to badly performing schools for their children. Mr Gillum adamantly opposes school choice, presumably in deference to the teachers' unions who wield considerable power within the Democratic Party.