FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist are making their pitches to Broward County voters as they enter the final stretch of their campaigns to win the Democratic nomination for Florida governor.
Both candidates are ramping up efforts to attract voters in Broward County, a reliably blue speck of Florida. Fried and Crist spent time in the second most populous county in the state on Wednesday, Fried to make one of her final appointments as agriculture commissioner in Fort Lauderdale and Crist to meet with Haitian faith and community leaders in North Lauderdale.
In her final months as agriculture commissioner, Fried is focused on leaving a lasting political legacy. On Wednesday, she appointed a new member to the Florida Commission on the Status of Women at the Broward County School Board headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. And though the spotlight was on another, she still spoke of national issues like reproductive rights and gun violence.
