{"id":51729,"date":"2022-08-23T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51729"},"modified":"2022-08-23T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T17:12:01","slug":"can-florida-democrats-take-down-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51729","title":{"rendered":"Can Florida Democrats take down DeSantis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big question on Florida Democrats\u2019 minds: Can they beat Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s voters on Tuesday are set to choose between Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.), a former Republican governor who\u2019s making his second attempt at reclaiming his old office, and state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the lone statewide elected Democrat, in the primary to challenge DeSantis this fall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But while few Republicans ignite the same kind of outrage among Democrats as DeSantis does, it\u2019s unclear whether the party has the candidates \u2014 or the firepower \u2014 to oust a governor whose political rise among conservatives appears, at times, unstoppable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big question on Florida Democrats\u2019&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51730,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51729\/revisions\/51730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}