The third person in the room was my director of comms, Kirsten Allen, a veteran of tight races and high-pressure situations. I’d spotted her in 2018, working for Andrew Gillum, when he lost the Florida governor’s race to Ron DeSantis by a hair, in one of the closest gubernatorial races in history. She’d been my press secretary and special assistant to Joe Biden, and had been our national press secretary for the Covid response.
How casually they memory hole the lockdowns... Also, Florida was so close to turning blue.
