Former Republican governor who became a Democratic congressman edges out Nikki Fried to face the Donald Trump protégé in November
is widely seen as a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, and Crist ramped up his criticism of Florida’s “absentee” governor in the run-up to the primary.
“He’s campaigning this last weekend in New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and I think another state, but he’s been doing that for a year, maybe more,” Crist said. “We have issues here the governor ought to be dealing with, the housing crisis, we pay our teachers 48 or 49 of 50 states, that’s embarrassing.
“And the fact he already has taken away a woman’s right to choose with the law that he signed, the 15-week law that has no exceptions for rape or incest, is barbaric.”, and painted herself as the only candidate capable of beating DeSantis. Crist, who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2010, has the unenviable distinction of losing statewide races as a Republican, Democrat and independent.
But Crist appears to have been more popular with women voters in this primary, and pointed out that, as governor, heIn another much-watched Florida Democratic primary race, congresswoman Val Demings easily secured the nomination to challenge the Republican US senator Marco Rubio in the fall.Topics
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