{"id":130799,"date":"2022-08-28T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=130799"},"modified":"2022-08-28T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T19:31:30","slug":"its-quite-excellent-that-charlie-crist-squandered-his-entire-campaign-chest-to-win-the-primary-against-nikki-fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=130799","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s quite excellent that Charlie Crist squandered his entire campaign chest to win the primary against Nikki Fried."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/28\/politics\/charlie-crist-florida-donors-desantis\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/28\/politics\/charlie-crist-florida-donors-desantis\/index.html<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Crist&#8217;s plea for cash was perhaps as creative as it was nakedly desperate. After exhausting most of the $14 million his campaign and political committee raised to defeat Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried in the primary, Crist started the 11-week sprint to the general election nearly from scratch. Meanwhile, DeSantis has been waiting for Crist with $132 million on hand, a record sum for a governor&#8217;s race.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}