Ron DeSantis

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist has won the Democratic nomination for governor in Florida, putting him in position to challenge Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall in a ...

“I think that he is scared of me winning tonight so he’s doing everything in his power to keep me off the campaign trail today.” In a sign of the party’s meager standing in Florida, she’s currently the only Democrat holding statewide office. Val Demings, who defeated a little-known candidate in her Senate primary Tuesday, can unseat the state’s senior U.S. But the state has steadily become more favorable to Republicans in recent years. But Democrats still face tremendous headwinds, including economic uncertainty and the historic reality that most parties lose seats in the first midterm after they’ve won the White House. His hands-off approach to the pandemic and eagerness to lean into divides over race, gender and LGBTQ rights have resonated with many Republican voters who see DeSantis as a natural heir to former President Donald Trump. Ron DeSantis this fall in a campaign that the Republican incumbent is eyeing as the first step toward a potential White House run. And for the most part, Democrats have avoided brutal primary fights — with some exceptions. His moderate stances could appeal to voters in Florida’s teeming suburbs as Democrats seek to reverse a losing pattern in a state that was once seen as a perennial political battleground. The 44-year-old hoped to compete to become Florida’s first female governor. Charlie Crist won the Democratic nomination for governor in Florida on Tuesday, putting him in position to challenge Gov. The 66-year-old has already served one term as governor, running as a Republican at the time before gravitating toward Democrats.

The victory by Mr. Crist, a former Republican governor who switched parties, sets up this fall's contest as a race between a centrist and a hard-right ...

Mr. They also hope to persuade voters that Mr. Crist after the congressman traveled to see him last year, knowing that he needed the support of the Haitian American community that Mr. Charlie didn’t have to come to my neighborhood to have a burger — but he did.” Unofficial results showed Mr. DeSantis, in trying to cast him as a divisive leader who plays up his policies as promoting freedom despite restricting the rights of women, Black and Hispanic Floridians and the L.G.B.T.Q. Democrats see a narrow path to defeating Mr. Crist would have succeeded against Mr. “We are going to make Ron DeSantis a one-term governor and a zero-term president of the United States.” “They want a governor who cares about them, who solves real problems, who preserves our freedom,” Mr. DeSantis as a contest between a centrist and a hard-right conservative, with Democrats believing that the well-known and peaceable Mr. Cory Mills, an Army veteran and conservative commentator won in a suburban Orlando district that the Republicans are expected to win in the fall.

Crist previously served as governor of Florida and he has said that he has the best chance of beating DeSantis.

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