Florida 2022 Megathread

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I enthusiastically support Crist, Crist wants be Gov not Rep, he only ran for House to run for Gov again, not stay in House


If DeSantis loses, he won't be Prez

Which will likely make his seat in FL-13 much more winnable for the Republicans.

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Rep. Val Demings expected to run for Governor
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2021/04/29/desantis-gets-a-big-name-likely-opponent-492656

Interesting.  Likely their strongest possible candidate. 

Well, good luck to Demings running as a former House Impeachment Manager IN Trump Country. FL is Trump Country. Trump won FL by a bigger margin last year than George W. Bush in his Re-Election 2004. FL isn't a Swing State anymore.

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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh? What reality are you in?

The Republicans gained two House seats last year and they were just 6 percentage points away from flipping FL-13 (which means that if Crist runs for Governor, it will be even easier to flip that seat). And Florida has elected Republican governors for more than 20 years. And the GOP even increased its majority in the FL House of Representatives that they controlled since the mid 90s.

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Now that Crist is running for Governor, the race for his House seat in FL-13 is either Toss-up or Lean R at least.

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Fried can't win, she's gonna choke hard. She doesn't stand for anything except being opposed to DeSantis, she couldn't even stand for the $15 Minimum wage. If she's the best we got then the Florida Democrats should just hand this race to DeSantis and save their breath for 2024 and 2026. DeSantis will fry Fried.

The announcement was a teaser for an announcement:

https://twitter.com/nikkifried/status/1392476334690078720?s=20

This ad is cringeworthy and reeks of the #Resistance, reminds me of Biden's ads in September and October where I live. 0 substance. It keeps talking about her record but doesn't tell us anything about it. Does she even have a record?

Nothing but soulless platitudes and appeals to "electability" which were probably bogus in the first place.


IMHO Val Demings and John Morgan are the two best candidates to take on DeSantis.

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The Election is in 500 days the last polls that were polled were DeSANTIS and Rubio up by six, pts, that's not a landslide

The only person that are safe are Reynolds and DeWine whom are close to , 59 percent Approvals


It's still a VBM Election you can make the ballot at Post Offices not drop boxes, D's need some Red states to keep the H

Kelly is gonna win in red state KS, the reason why we can win FL Afro Americans dominate the state, and Biden in some polls are at 59 percent. Our D states are more safe because Biden is over 50% not 46% if Biden was like Trump, we would be losing MI, WI and PA

By 10 percentage points, actually, and even by 15 over Demings. So YES that is a landslide.

https://thecapitolist.com/desantis-posts-strong-approval-in-latest-florida-chamber-poll/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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@UWS,
FL-GOV looks "Lean R" for sure!

And so is FL-SEN.

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Lol DeSantis isn't winning by double digits Trump won it by 3 pts if it's a 304 map Abbott is winning by six and DeSantis by 3 these polls are underestimating Minority votes

These Polls do not underestimate Minority Voters. You are full of crap!

The moreover that Biden's decision to put the FARC out of the blacklist of terrorist organizations will hurt the FL Dems among Columbian-Americans who represent an important part of Florida's population.

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Crist can win this😌😌😌

Not as long as the economy in Florida is BOOMING! Since April 2020, more than 1 million jobs have been added in Florida. Under Ron De Santis, Florida is leading the nation in terms of job creation as 25 % of the jobs created last month were created in Florida. People will attribute it to De Santis' tax-cut, small government and free enterprise policies.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/481058-ron-desantis-jobs/

Meanwhile, Crist is the extreme liberal who lost 832,000 jobs during his time as Governor in addition of running $5.2 billion in debt. And this so-called "moderate" supported BBB. The moreover that the socialist and big government policies that Crist is supporting resulted that Tesla moved its headquarters from California to Texas.

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Florida has a $20 billion budget surplus right now under DeSantis, highest in recent history.

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Florida has a $20 billion budget surplus right now under DeSantis, highest in recent history.

He is losing in the Listener poll 51/48 Ha to Christ

It's not over but it's not over for Crist or DeSantis but DeSantis tied just like Vance is tied with Ryan is embarrassing in this Environment where acred wave is supposed to happen

Meanwhile, your candidate far-leftist liberal Charlie Crist ran $5.2 billion in debt and lost 832 000 jobs during his time as Governor and he raised taxes by $2.2 billion two weeks after he signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge. Gas prices are skyrocketing and Florida has the 9th highest gas prices in the country as the average state gas tax is 42.5 cents per gal and the average gas price is $2.39 per gal. Yet Crist supported Sleepy Joe's decision to revoke Keystone XL, thus killing 11,000 jobs, and he supports the Green New Deal and the THRIVE Agenda even though gas prices are at the highest rate since 2014 and even though that agenda would cost $2 trillion, ban fracking and abolish fossil fuel. The winner of such agenda is Vladimir Putin. So a vote for Charlie Crist is a vote for more funding for Putin's war in Ukraine and for more Ukrainian blood.

And even with issues emerging like guns and abortion, Crist will be portrayed as a flip-flop as he first thought abortion is a personal issue and not a government issue and he supported a partial-birth abortion ban. In 2006, he said he would sign a bill that would ban abortion in Florida and promoted a culture of life. Now he supports abortion. He first said he supported Second Amendment rights and was not in favor of strict gun control but now supports gun control. And in a state that is increasingly becoming red, Crist has an F rating from the NRA. Not a D minus, not a D, an F. So Crist is running to the left of Bernie Sanders and wants to take the guns of all Floridians.

Florida has a story of not electing serial flip-floppers. That's why George W. Bush won Florida over John Kerry in 2004 and why Barack Obama won Florida over Mitt Romney in 2012. Charlie Crist is just too wishy-washy to be Governor.

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Democratic Primary debate last night.

I have to say, Charlie Crist might actually lose this primary. Fried really tore into him on his past with the Republican Party, calling him a fake Democrat, calling out his flip-flopping on abortion, calling out Crist's past support from the NRA.

The moreover that in 2006, Crist attended a fundraiser hosted by, guess who... DONALD J. TRUMP.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/florida-attorney-general-hot-water/

Even during his time as Congressman, Crist sucked up to Trump as Crist voted in favor of approving $1.6 billion to build Trump's Border Wall even when he opposes the wall that is a main component of Trump's agenda.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-democrat-charlie-crist-votes-to-fund-trumps-border-wall-with-mexico-9530153

https://twitter.com/AllisonNielsen/status/890699437994983424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw...

https://twitter.com/JenniferShutt/status/890687787296575489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%...

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Meanwhile...

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1562452608765542400

Hello Charlie? This is not 2014 or 2018 when your State had more Democrats.

Calling out DeSantis Supporters "Haters" & playing the Hillary Clinton Deplorable Card sure will help you.

Also playing Mitt Romney's 47 % comment card

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Crist is nothing else than a stone-cold phony. He pretends to be a moderate but he is actually a radical far-left tax and spend socialist.

He selected as his lieutenant-gubernatorial running mate a sympatheist of Fidel Castro as she publicly mourned his death in 2016, which will rally a coalition of Cuban-Americans, Venezuelans, Columbians, Nicaraguans, etc. with the GOP because socialism is precisely the reason why they fled their countries.

Karla Hernández Mats' choice as Crist's running mate is a slap to the parents as she is anti-parent and equates parents who petition their child’s school board to serial killers. So Crist put the interests of teachers unions ahead of the need of children. If Crist can't stand up to teachers unions, how can we trust him to stand up to Joe Biden?

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/desantis-opponent-names-running-mate-a-teachers-union-head-who-fought-to-close-schools-compared-parents-to-serial-killers/

In early August, even in a time of Bidencession (as the GDP shrinks for 2 quarters in a row at 0.9% pace), Charlie Crist voted in favor of that tax and spend bill that will do nothing to reduce the inflation and so she voted to drive up health care cost for 220 million Americans (which will hurt notably the seniors in Florida that are key to victory in Florida), to add $300 million in Green New Deal funding, to increase the size of the IRS through the adiction of 87,000 IRS agents (making it larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI and Border Control combined) and to increase taxes on Americans making less than $400,000 a year. But Charlie Crist voted for that bill because he was afraid of Nikki Fried who started to gain on him in the Democratic gubernatorial primary because of his flip-flopping position on abortion. If Charlie Crist can't stand up to Nikki Fried, how in the world can we trust him to stand up to Joe Biden?

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Charlie Crist is too radical on crime and law enforcement. He is just another supporter of the Defund the Police movement. During an interview, he said he would reallocate funding away from law enforcement. In the context of the Summer 2020 BLM riots, St. Petersburg“reallocated” $3.8 million in city funding that was originally allocated to hire 25 new officers. Crist unequivocally praised the reallocation/defunding of police in St. Petersburg.

https://www.vera.org/policy-changes-in-us-policing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HwSn41OX18

He also supports soft-on-crime prosecutors who make our communities less safe and make law enforcement’s job harder.

https://ourtallahassee.com/charlie-crist-bob-lotane-voting-rights-justice-reform/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charlie-crist-bob-lotane-voting-rights-justice-reform

Crist co-sponsored anti-police George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 which assumes that a disparate impact by race in traffic stops is automatically evidence of “racial profiling”. No wonder that Crist referred to the 2020 BLM riots that left 2,000 police officers blinded or injured, more than two dozen people dead, and property damage that exceeded $2 billion, as, quote, “the largest peaceful demonstration in American history.” And last year, he voted against a resolution to condemn the “Defund the Police” movement.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1280/cosponsors

https://crist.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2268

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202159

His running mate, Karla Hernández Mats said that putting criminals in prison is equivalent to genocide. She referred to police officers as modern-day Jim Crow and supports violent rioting in the state of Florida, advocating against the DeSantis’ Anti-Riot Bill, calling the bill “racist.”

https://twitter.com/KarlaforFlorida/status/1285038719095930882?s=20&t=ARzvci3mewwakvbsE3r6SQ

That’s why it is dangerous to have Charlie Crist as Governor and a vote for him is a vote to make Florida a more dangerous place.

Meanwhile, under Ron DeSantis, Florida communities are ranked among the safest in the nation, and he is committed to supporting law enforcement and first responders. Ron DeSantis signed the most comprehensive pro-law enforcement legislation in the nation, prohibiting defunding the police. If local governments try to defund law enforcement, the Governor and Cabinet can override them and reinstate the funding.

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Karla Hernández Mats has a troubling history with integrity. In fact, during her time as president of UTD, she protected a sexual predator for years and accompanied him through numerous investigations into his sexual assaults of multiple students at a Miami-Dade middle school. The rapist, Wendell Nibbs, was a high-ranking UTD member and strong supporter of Hernandez Mats. He pled guilty to child sexual assault and was sentenced to 8 years in prison in January 2020. After this scandal, Mats tweeted from UTD that “Charters lack accountability and transparency of traditional public schools. They are not subject to the same regulations in hiring certified teachers”)

https://web.archive.org/web/20201125030933/https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article226466655.html

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/23/former-brownsville-middle-school-teacher-pleads-guilty-in-sex-assault-case/

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UWs forget Rs give massive tax cuts for the richest Americans did UWS ever pay attention that we won AK and NY 19 and we were the underdogs in, apparently he doesn't

You didn't pay attention to the fact that on the day you're talking about, a majority of his endorsed candidates won, including in areas where school boards were previously run by liberal members.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3614354-desantis-backed-candidates-prevail-in-florida-school-board-elections/

That's another reason why Florida is turning red along with the 248,000 voter registration edge that GOP has over Dems in FL. And your candidate Charlie Crist said he doesn't want the vote of DeSantis supporters calling them haters like Crooked Hillary said about Trump supporters when she called them Deplorables and like Romney alienated the 47 % who he claimed would support Obama no matter what. So there 0 chance they will vote for a liberal flip-flopper like Crist. They are going to give him that service not to vote for him and they are going to crush Charlie.

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Crist is nothing else than a stone-cold phony. He pretends to be a moderate but he is actually a radical far-left tax and spend socialist.

He selected as his lieutenant-gubernatorial running mate a sympatheist of Fidel Castro as she publicly mourned his death in 2016, which will rally a coalition of Cuban-Americans, Venezuelans, Columbians, Nicaraguans, etc. with the GOP because socialism is precisely the reason why they fled their countries.

Karla Hernández Mats' choice as Crist's running mate is a slap to the parents as she is anti-parent and equates parents who petition their child’s school board to serial killers. So Crist put the interests of teachers unions ahead of the need of children. If Crist can't stand up to teachers unions, how can we trust him to stand up to Joe Biden?

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/desantis-opponent-names-running-mate-a-teachers-union-head-who-fought-to-close-schools-compared-parents-to-serial-killers/

In early August, even in a time of Bidencession (as the GDP shrinks for 2 quarters in a row at 0.9% pace), Charlie Crist voted in favor of that tax and spend bill that will do nothing to reduce the inflation and so she voted to drive up health care cost for 220 million Americans (which will hurt notably the seniors in Florida that are key to victory in Florida), to add $300 million in Green New Deal funding, to increase the size of the IRS through the adiction of 87,000 IRS agents (making it larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI and Border Control combined) and to increase taxes on Americans making less than $400,000 a year. But Charlie Crist voted for that bill because he was afraid of Nikki Fried who started to gain on him in the Democratic gubernatorial primary because of his flip-flopping position on abortion. If Charlie Crist can't stand up to Nikki Fried, how in the world can we trust him to stand up to Joe Biden?

You can say he's a flip-flopper (duh) but a former Republican Governor is not a 'radical tax and spend socialist'.

DeSantis, on the other hand, voted to increase the deficit and debt several times.

Crist has a 100 % Voting Record siding with the Pelosi/Schumer/Harris/Biden Agenda since Biden took Office in January 2021. That is saying something mate.
Crist is not a Moderate anymore as you still claim.

You didn't respond to DeSantis increasing the debt/deficit.

Actually, DeSantis has 21.8 dollar billion budget surplus, this is the largest surplus in Florida’s history and a 21 % increase over expectations thanks to unexpected revenue.

https://www.floridadaily.com/ron-desantis-announces-a-21-8-billion-surplus/

Meanwhile, during his time as Governor, Charlie Crist ran $5.2 billion in debt at the same time he raise taxes by $2.2 billion just two weeks after he signed the No New Taxes pledge, which resulted 832 000 jobs to a tripling of the state's unemployment, the second worst in the nation, and more foreclosures. Two-faced Charlie even admitted that he raised taxes and he doesn't rule out tax increases in the case he wins governorship, a scenario in which he will bring back mask mandates and shut FL economy down.

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With an R state legislature he won't raise taxes but if must know in a poll recently Demings was ahead UNF poll 48/44 while deSantis was ahead 51/46 I don't expect to sweep everything but we can win 1 of these races like OH Ryan is winning while DeWine is winning

Both polls you referring are D pollsters. And actually a more recent poll from Kurt Jetta, a Dem pollster, showed Val Demings trailing by 11 points. And the Republicans have 248,000 more registered voters than Dems and have more primary turnout in last week's primaries. FL isn't Massachusetts.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/trust-linked-gavin-newsoms-in-laws-made-contribution-desantis-pac

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We're gonna win FLORIDA

Last year you have said repeatedly that Terry McCauliffe was going to win in Virginia. You have been wrong.

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https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1571926622776745984?ref_src=twsrc%5Ego...https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1572351250296983552?cxt=HHwWgMC-gbXIj...

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https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1572376424937394176?cxt=HHwWgMC82eKBm...

In addition of mourning Fidel Castro when he died, Karla Marx opposed moving the embassy to Jerusalem. That is really not a win for Crist among FL's Jewish voters.

She promoted a tweet criticizing the 2018 decision to relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a move widely seen as a watershed moment for America's pro-Israel community. The tweet was from Leah Daughtry and it reads : "All these folks saying that moving the Embassy is biblical. I'm pretty familiar with the Bible. Can't say i recall any mention of the US, an embassy, or moving of said Embassy. I am going to need a citation, with chapter & verse."

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The Hurricane will help DeSantis just like it helped Rick Scott in 2018. I actually think Scott beat Nelson because of Scotts Response to Hurricane Michael.

Floridians will always rally behind their Governor when they face a Natural Disaster like a Hurricane.

Remember Surfside. DeSantis Approvals jumped up immediatedly.

Meanwhile, Demings voted against the Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017 that provided Tax Relief for the victims of Hurricane Irma even after that Hurricane hit Florida just like Beto O'Rourke voted against that same bill that also provided Tax Relief for the victims of Hurricane Harvey, which helped Cruz to defeat O'Rourke while Rubio led the effort to pass Emergency Tax Relief along with John Cornyn and Ted Cruz which gave over $5 billion in emergency tax relief for families impacted by Hurricane Irma. It passed both houses of Congress overwhelmingly and was signed into law and provided immediate relief for the Floridians impacted by Hurricane Irma.

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll542.xml

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Bills/20170928_Hurricane_Victim_Tax_Relief_Act_2017.pdf

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Karla Marx is really not giving Crist any favor as she stepped in it with a flippant remark that demeaned special needs students. She said “I’m a sp-ed (special education) teacher, so my major is emotionally handicapped education, OK? That by itself qualifies me to deal with a dysfunctional Legislature.”

https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1573673586849730560?cxt=HHwWgMC-icTy5...

In response to that, Casey DeSantis tweeted, “Sickened by callous words from someone who claims to be an advocate for our children. … I will make it my mission to let all parents know of the ‘hate in your heart.'”

https://www.winknews.com/2022/09/15/karla-hernandez-charlie-crists-running-mate-criticized-over-special-ed-comments/

That’s why Florida Politics ranked Karla Marx as the almost biggest loser in Florida politics while it ranked GOP voter registration as the biggest winner of the week in Florida politics. So let me be clear, you can’t be pro-parents and students and pro-teacher unions at the same time. You have to choose.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/558120-winner-and-loser-of-the-week-in-florida-politics-week-of-9-18-22/

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Great Job Real Leadership from Ron, his Wife and all the Officials down there....

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1eaKbrkEQlBKX

Meanwhile Sleepy Crappy Slowy Joe Biden went on to go to a Fundraising Event for the DGA the same time IAN hit FL.

People are way more important in these sort of circumstances then winning a Political Race to be quite frank.

I wouldn't be surprised if DeSantis takes at least the next week off the Campaign Trail.

Sith Lord Darth Brandon seeks to have forgotten that in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy Barack Obama has interrupted his campaign in order to focus on handling the Hurricane

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Sorry to my Democratic Friends on the other side but I have to bring this up just to remind everyone how "Comical" CNN/SSRS Polls can be:


That was just atrocious to publish that Poll at all!!!

And in addition back in 2004, the Dems had a 3.58 percentage points advantage in registration in Florida in October 2004, yet George W. Bush won Florida by 5 percentage points, the most comfortable margin victory for a Republican in Florida in presidential elections thus far in modern history.

https://p2004.org/states/fldet04.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida