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By editor Kathy Wray Coleman

FLORIDA- Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (pictured), after winning an upset victory Tuesday night in  Florida's  Democratic gubernatorial primary, could become the state's first African-American governor if he wins the general election in November against U.S Florida Democratic Primary. Rep. Ron DeSantis, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for governor.

The youngest person ever elected to the Tallahassee City Commission, Gillum, 39, won that seat in February 2003 at 23-years old.

He was elected mayor in 2014.

A graduate of Florida A&M University Gillum strategically snatched the Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday, winning over a field of five other candidates and beating front runner Gwen Graham, a former member of of the U.S. House of Representatives who is White and the daughter former governor and senator Bob Graham, as well as former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, and Jeff Green, a businessman.

He ran on a progressive platform,  stressing the $15-1n-hour minimum wage, and medicare for all.

And prior to his victory on Tuesday,  he won the endorsement of Vermont Sen, Bernie Sanders, a socialist who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2016 and lost the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton, who went on to lose the presidency to current president Donald Trump, a Republican.