A.G. Gancarski
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried served for four years in the Cabinet with Ron DeSantis. And she’s not surprised the Governor’s campaign for President, in which he’s pledged to “make America Florida,” is troubled, after he delivered on a laundry list of right-wing issues in the 2023 Legislative Session.
“I think that’s exactly why he is collapsing in the polls, because his extreme agenda doesn’t resonate in and around the country and he’s even dropped in the polls here in Florida,” Fried said. “If he had an election (for Governor) today, he would lose, because this is not who Floridians are.”
Fried made the comments as she headed to Clay County for a voter mobilization event.
“You have a state that has 75% of Floridians who do not want a six-week abortion ban, 71% who do not want permitless carry, and the list goes on and on.”
Beyond ideology, Fried says personality is an issue, with the Governor failing the “beer test.”
“There’s no charisma. He’s evil and mean-spirited and he has no desire to interact with people and that’s not what people are looking for in their President,” Fried said “There’s still a beer test and he fails that beer test every single day.”
Fried also believes the Legislature — remarkably compliant to the Governor’s will in recent Legislative Sessions — will develop some backbone in 2024.
“I don’t see the Legislature falling in line anymore. They’re already feeling like they were forced to vote for his agenda, which is not resonating (with voters back) home,” Fried said.
“Their constituents are asking them about the anti-immigration bill. They’re asking about the abortion ban, they’re asking them about property insurance. And so they feel that the weight of their votes every single day at home and the pressure of voting for a certain Speaker. And then, you know, in two years or four years, whatever their cycle is, I don’t see a world where they’re going to just blindly follow him what they’ve been doing, but he’s going to try.”
Fried believes he’s going to “come back bitter and that’s what a tyrant does.”
“He’s not going to understand his mistakes. He’s going to believe that it was the mistakes of his staff or his team, anywhere but put the blame on himself. And we’ve seen that, time and time again under his administration, he never believes in the concept that the buck stops with him,” she added.
“He just goes off and blames everybody else, and I think that’s the type of personality that we’re going to see. And it’s unfortunate, because at the end of the day, it’s people of our state that are going to suffer because of the way he’s going to come back and govern.”
If polling of the GOP field is any indication, the Governor could be back sooner rather than later. The Race to the White House polling average shows DeSantis at just 15% overall nationally, with Donald Trump at 54% despite four different federal indictments.
10 comments
Ocean Joe
August 15, 2023 at 10:51 am
When Nikki stood up to him, he stopped having cabinet meetings to shut her out.
Adam Putnam needs to say something nice about Trump and get back into politics, either challenging Scott, or running for governor to block all the Desantis lackeys.
If you’ve got to have Republican office holders which is now the case in Florida, at least maybe some moderate characters with brains.
The beer test will go away when red snowflakes finish off the beer industry.
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Silly Wabbit
August 15, 2023 at 1:47 pm
Twew that.
Yep
August 15, 2023 at 11:14 am
Like her or not, she certainly knows the guy.
tom palmer
August 15, 2023 at 2:11 pm
Adam Putnam has a secure interesting post in the private sector. Not sure there’s anything in it for him to jump back in, but it would be nice to retire Rick Scott from office.
Dont Say FLA
August 15, 2023 at 2:22 pm
CaCa CaCa Jill is the beer drinker. Rhonda sips umbrella adorned fruity drinks through a fun twisty straw
Don Towdt
August 15, 2023 at 8:22 pm
‘Nikki Fried isn’t surprised by Ron DeSantis’ 2024 campaign turmoil”
I doubt that DeSantis, or anyone else for that matter, was surprised when Fried laid an egg the size of a watermelon last year.
Impeach Biden
August 16, 2023 at 6:13 am
It’s personal with Nikki and she couldn’t even get the demo nominee to run against DeSantis this last time around, Didn’t matter as he would have crushed her as well. She was nothing but a disrupter and an obstructionist as our Ag Commissioner. In her mind she thought she could beat DeSantis. The voters said otherwise. Now please go away as you are completely insignificant as a political person in Florida. Take Gancarski with you too. You have his full attention and quite possibly he is a stalker.
Dont Say FLA
August 16, 2023 at 9:01 am
Neither Don Towdt nor IBS is saying Nikki Fried is wrong.
Both commenters chose, unprompted and without baiting, to shoot the messenger Nikki Fried.
Very telling, Don and IBS. Thanks for that.
Impeach Biden
August 16, 2023 at 4:22 pm
Nikki Fried is wrong and unstable. How’s that? Shall we bring on her so called scientist friend as well? It was personal with her as DeSantis steamrolled her. That’s why she continues yelling from the sideline bench. She is a scrub now.
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