A.G. Gancarski
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried continues to find traction with her COVID-19 critique of Gov. Ron DeSantis, with another national television hit Tuesday night.
However, even on left-leaning talk shows, she’s encountering skepticism about whether Democrats can upend DeSantis in 2022.
Tuesday saw her reject a contention that Democrats were “struggling,” pointing to public polls for validation and describing DeSantis as “stepping on the backs” of Floridians and children for electoral advantage.
“I’ve seen a couple of polls actually recently that have shown him dropping 10, 15 points. And I would say that will continue to happen. Because as this individual is running for President of the United States in 2024, we see that in all of his policies,” Fried said.
“And so he is stepping on the backs of Floridians and now our children in order to get votes for President in 2024,” Fried said, referring to the Governor’s threats to defund officials in school districts that require masks.
“We as Democrats in the state of Florida have a consistent message. And we’re going to stand up, we’re going to show leadership, which is what I’ve done every single day, especially in the last couple of months during this pandemic, having our press conferences every day and giving to the people of our state information that they’re so desiring,” Fried said of her briefings, which included one today where she compared the mandate-averse Governor to a “bully on the playground.”
Fried made the comments on the Peacock’s Mehdi Hasan show.
For Fried, the delta variant has offered a reversal of fortune compared to DeSantis. The Governor is doing fewer prime-time media hits as hospital capacity is strained in the state.
Fried has countermessaged in his absence, and her gubernatorial campaign has trumpeted the value of her television hits as approaching $1 million weekly, while spotlighting her Twitter account’s organic reach.
Polls show a DeSantis advantage, still.
The most favorable head-to-head poll for her recently was from St. Pete Polls, and it showed her down three points in a two-way race with DeSantis. A Florida Chamber poll, meanwhile, projected a nine-point DeSantis lead.
However, there are signs his personal brand may be wearing with some. His favorability was five points underwater in the same St. Pete Polls survey.
13 comments
Ed
August 10, 2021 at 8:28 pm
Serious question. Is A.G. an official spokesman for the “Elect Fraud” campaign? Living in South Florida I am subjected to fraudulent poling data that is published by the Sun Sentinel. Yes the polls that showed Trump, Scott, DeSantis all being defeated in the last elections in Florida. Well what happened? Looking forward to Fried vanishing. A.G. you are going to have to hitch yourself to a more viable candidate.
Tom Palmer
August 10, 2021 at 10:31 pm
I thought he was Rick Scott’s official stenographer for awhile. DeSantis won only by 0.4 of a percent statewide and got creamed in south Florida, so the poll numbers may have been the so-called margin of error.. The only poll that really counts is he one on election day. I wouldn’t take Fried’s pronouncements on this seriously,. either.
Zhombre
August 10, 2021 at 8:42 pm
Cassandra. Not.
FriedTheFraud
August 10, 2021 at 9:03 pm
This woman is a addicted to attention. The faux outrage is pathetic. She also happens to be completely incompetent. Go away Nikki – Florida can’t stand you.
Domino
August 10, 2021 at 10:08 pm
Domino predicts Nikki’s July fundraising numbers will be abysmal.
Where’s that 2020 Form 6 that was due July 1?
Tom
August 10, 2021 at 11:14 pm
CDC in conjunction with the Fraud ran false Covid infection numbers from over the weekend. It must have been purposeful. Fraud said she was coordinating with WH. Florida politics like the other media ran them. It’s disgusting as to how low media will go. Fraud is at the curb. She is shrill and disgusting. Cuomo resigned, Cali Newsom is a
Likely loser in his recall as a lock down Governor. He decimated the states as in New Yoirk. America’s Governor is an angel compared to those two. His do you like the Dem party now.
Brutal.
Tom
August 10, 2021 at 11:14 pm
CDC in conjunction with the Fraud ran false Covid infection numbers from over the weekend. It must have been purposeful. Fraud said she was coordinating with WH. Florida politics like the other media ran them. It’s disgusting as to how low media will go. Fraud is at the curb. She is shrill and disgusting. Cuomo resigned, Cali Newsom is a
Likely loser in his recall as a lock down Governor. He decimated the states as in New Yoirk. America’s Governor is an angel compared to those two. His do you like the Dem party now.
Brutal.
Tom
August 11, 2021 at 7:55 am
LMAO.
As if anything flip flopper Fraud says is accurate. Just a liar. Niki Fraud.
Way to much cheap coverage.
Ocean Joe
August 11, 2021 at 9:35 am
The “where we go one, we go all” showed up and put Nostradamus to shame. But Fried is right to some degree. America’s governor is shrinking, at least his bluster is. He started out threatening to cut school funding, now it’s just school board salaries.
He does better when he sticks to howling about illegal immigrants.
Matthew Lusk
August 11, 2021 at 12:42 pm
All the covid hysteria is based on fly-by-night PCR tests which give out false positives. Hospitals love it because they reap millions in free tax money. “Covid” patients in hospitals are obese (90%) and diabetic. White collar crime is a trillion dollar industry.
Matthew Lusk
August 11, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Nikki, tell us about that $700,000 campaign donation –_I mean house.
Patricia Whaley
August 12, 2021 at 9:06 pm
People who supported DeathSantis two years ago are walking away. His arrogance will be his downfall. Ivy league education lol.
Arthro
August 13, 2021 at 11:14 pm
Nikki is a clown. No, she is not getting any traction with her attacks. But Florida Politics is campaigning hard for her…
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