Former President Trump's shadow again hangs over a Crist gubernatorial primary.
— from the time Crist gave him a Florida-shaped birthday cake in 2005 to Crist congratulating Trump via text over his 2016 presidential win, which sent Democrats reeling.
As for the Trump friendship, the Crist campaign says, the former president was not a toxic figure when Crist began courting him in 2005 as part of his successful GOP bid for governor. Earlier that year, Hillary Clinton attended Trump’s wedding to the then-Melania Knauss. Crist went on to lose the 2014 race against then-Gov. Rick Scott, who was re-elected. Scott first won the office in 2010 when Crist decided not to seek re-election as a Republican governor and instead run for Senate. But Crist left the GOP when Marco Rubio threatened to beat him in the primary, and he became an independent and lost that general election, too.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democratic candidate for governor, arrives at the White House for a ceremony with President Joe Biden on July 20.But pollster Steve Vancore said he’s not sure if Crist will pay more of a price for once being a Republican because it’s old news. Trump’s relationship with Crist began in 2005 when Crist was Florida’s elected attorney general running as a more-moderate Republican candidate, compared to his primary rival.Trump’s support for Crist was gold for the candidate, who raised millions of dollars at four separate Trump fundraisers at his Palm Beach and New York City properties in the 2006 election cycle.
Unlike the 2010 and the 2014 races, Trump became a campaign issue in Crist’s 2016 congressional campaign, but in a totally unexpected way. At the time, the Crist-backing Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee attacked his Republican rival, Rep. David Jolly, by doctoring a photo to make it appear as if the incumbent congressman had been in a picture with Trump when he never had been.
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