{"id":1565434,"date":"2022-07-22T03:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565434"},"modified":"2022-07-22T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:04:27","slug":"top-democratic-challengers-vying-to-take-on-desantis-battle-on-debate-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-democratic-challengers-vying-to-take-on-desantis-battle-on-debate-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Democratic Challengers Vying to Take on DeSantis Battle on Debate Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-democratic-challengers-vying-to-take-on-desantis-battle-on-debate-stage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The top two Democrats hoping to unseat Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall faced off in a contentious televised debate in Miami on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>But the opponents paused their verbal sparring to agree on a handful of issues facing the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. House Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) and Nikki Fried, the state\u2019s agriculture commissioner, concurred that soaring home prices and property insurance costs warrant emergency action.<\/p>\n<p>Both promised, if elected, to work to \u201cban assault weapons.\u201d And both said they\u2019d support the death sentence for the shooter on trial for killing 17 at a school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>During the debate\u2014featuring many questions in Spanish and translated for the candidates\u2014both said they favored comprehensive immigration reform. One million \u201cundocumented workers\u201d in agriculture are \u201cessential to our economy,\u201d Fried said.<\/p>\n<p>And both vowed to repeal the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Bills\/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=76545\">Parental Rights in Education bill.<\/a>\u00a0The legislation sparked controversy around the country after opponents dubbed it the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>Crist and Fried lead a field of four Democrats hoping to displace DeSantis. They\u2019ll face off on Aug. 23 in the Democratic primary for governor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/21\/Charlie-Crist-2-1200x828.jpg\"><\/a> Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) attends a round table discussion with Venezuelan immigrants about renewing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in Miami, Fla., July 06, 2022. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, the incumbent, doesn\u2019t have a Republican challenger. So he automatically advances to the general election on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p> Parental Rights in Education <\/p>\n<p>During the debate, Crist and Fried expressed outrage for DeSantis. But nothing inflamed them as much as the new Parental Rights in Education law.<\/p>\n<p>Signed by DeSantis in March, the legislation bans instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms of children in third grade or younger. It requires schools to involve parents when critical decisions about a student are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top two Democrats hoping to unseat Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall faced off in a contentious televised debate in Miami on June 21. But the opponents paused their verbal sparring to agree on a handful of issues facing the Sunshine State. U.S. House Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) and Nikki Fried, the state\u2019s agriculture [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}