{"id":55835,"date":"2022-10-25T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=55835"},"modified":"2022-10-25T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:59:43","slug":"who-won-desantis-crist-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/10\/who-won-desantis-crist-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Who won DeSantis-Crist debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DeSantis-Crist.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55836\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The first and only debate in&nbsp;Florida\u2019s gubernatorial race&nbsp;was held Monday night in Fort Pierce, and we want you to weigh in on our unscientific poll to let us know who you think won: Gov. Ron DeSantis or former Rep. Charlie Crist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debate, as expected, was full of fiery exchanges between the current governor and former governor. The two traded barbs over some of the most controversial topics like abortion, immigration, education and Florida\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several times throughout the night, Crist accused DeSantis of taking his \u201ceye off the ball\u201d and being focused on running for president in 2024. One of the most intense moments of the debate was when Crist asked DeSantis if he could look in the eyes of voters and promise them he\u2019d serve a full four-year term if re-elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis responded that, \u201cthe only worn-out old donkey I\u2019m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you missed the debate,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/election\/watch-live-ron-desantis-charlie-crist-meet-in-floridas-only-governor-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">you can watch it in full on WFLA.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first and only debate in&nbsp;Florida\u2019s gubernatorial race&nbsp;was held Monday night in Fort Pierce, and we want you to weigh in on our unscientific poll to let us know who&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55838,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55835\/revisions\/55838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}