By Charles C. W. Cooke
Friday, August 26, 2022
Charlie Crist, the Democratic candidate for governor in
Florida, intends to pick Karla Hernandez-Mats as his running
mate. Hernandez-Mats is the president of the Miami teachers union.
Is Crist out of his mind?
Earlier this week, Crist kicked off his campaign by
saying that he didn’t want DeSantis voters to vote for him because they have
“hate” in their hearts. This represented a novel strategy, given that DeSantis
won the election in 2018. But picking Hernandez-Mats? That makes Crist’s
opening gambit look like a masterstroke. A lot of new voters
have moved into Florida since 2018, and the thing they care about more than
anything else in the world is that the schools here were open while they were
locked down up in the Northeast.
DeSantis made keeping the schools open his calling card.
Hernandez-Mats? Not
so much.
It’s baffling. Of all the things the
Democrats could hit Ron DeSantis for, they’re choosing the biggest asset he
has? Somehow — somehow! — Charlie Crist looked around a state of 21 million
people, and decided that his best option as a running mate was Randi Weingarten
Jr.
How?
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