TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The three leading Democratic candidates in the Florida governor’s race— U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and state Sen. Annette Taddeo — have a Ron DeSantis problem.
The incumbent Republican governor has massively out-fundraised his Democratic opponents, and — despite constant negative messaging from Democrats — approval polling shows the governor is popular with voters.
Some of the Democratic candidates’ soundbites that have garnered attention have come at a cost: Fried at one point compared DeSantis to Adolf Hitler and Crist got pushback after saying DeSantis was trying to gin up support from the “toothless crowd.”
