Rabbi Mark Winer, president of the Florida Democratic Party Jewish Caucus, said on Thursday that DeSantis’ association with Mastriano provides an “active comfort” to bigotry and racism.

“His going out of his way to campaign for Mastriano just underlines for all of us in Florida the extent to which Governor DeSantis provides such comfort—such safe harbor—to bigots and racists of every kind,” Winer said in a video call with reporters on Thursday, according to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star…

“Let’s not mince words here: Mastriano is an antisemite,” Fred Guttenberg, an anti-gun violence activist whose daughter died in the Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, said on Thursday, according to the Capital-Star. “He has shown himself to be with words and actions over an extended period of time. Any embrace of Mastriano is an embrace of antisemitism, full stop.”

Leaders in Jewish Democratic communities called on the Florida governor to cancel his appearance at the campaign rally in Pittsburgh on Friday. The rally is organized by Turning Point America and will take place at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown hotel.