TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., has new endorsements and is again on tv following a post-primary hiatus.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group, was amongst a number of saying they’d assist Crist’s bid for governor.
It occurred throughout a press event in Wilton Manors on Wednesday.
Crist, a Democrat, is attempting to oust Republican incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis in November.
“Gov. Ron DeSantis is one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ politicians in America and an existential threat to every LGBTQ+ person in Florida,” Joni Madison, interim president of HRC, mentioned in an announcement. “The rights of millions of Floridians are being rolled back by him and an extremist minority of anti-equality judges and politicians attacking our families, our right to vote, and our right to access healthcare and make decisions about our own bodies.”
The HRC known as Crist a “proven champion” throughout a Wednesday press occasion and vowed to mobilize two million voters to again his effort.
Crist additionally returned to the airwaves this week.
He has a new television advertisement hitting DeSantis for prime property insurance coverage prices and limiting abortion entry. It comes after Crist spent weeks attempting to replenish funds misplaced within the main, although he recommended his day without work air did not harm him.
“This is really weird,” Crist mentioned. “Since we’ve been off the air, and he has saturated the airwaves, we’ve gone up [in the polls]. It’s weird, but I guess people know the product, and they don’t like it.”
A late August AARP poll of 1,600 Floridians had Crist down solely three factors to DeSantis.
The governor nonetheless has an enormous lead in funding. Through Sept. 2, the newest state reports present the DeSantis marketing campaign and its committee mixed had greater than $122 million readily available. Crist was round $4 million.
That’s cash DeSantis is utilizing to stay entrance and middle. Advertisements from each his campaign and the Florida GOP tout the governor’s file, the state’s economic system and tie Crist to President Joe Biden.
The Republican Governors Association additionally attacked Crist for his assist of the Inflation Reduction Act in a Wednesday assertion. Officials mentioned federal spending was the reason for the nation’s excessive costs.
“Just over a month ago, Charlie Crist went on TV and told Floridians there was no recession and dismissed concerns about rising prices,” RGA spokesperson Joanna Rodriguez mentioned in an announcement. “And from the moment Biden was sworn in, Crist has stood in lockstep with him on his tax and spending spree, which has caused the pain and suffering Floridians are fed up and ticked off with.”