{"id":544617,"date":"2010-04-27T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83259"},"modified":"2010-04-27T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:30:56","slug":"crist-to-announce-party-id-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544617","title":{"rendered":"Crist to Announce Party ID Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the suspense continues&#8230; Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) has indicated he will wait until Thursday to announce whether he plans to run for Florida Senate as a Republican or switch his party affiliation to Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/04\/27\/1600268\/fla-gov-crist-to-make-senate-decision.html\">according to The Associated Press<\/a>, leaving one of the most closely watched congressional races of 2010 up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Crist faces a seemingly insurmountable primary challenge on the right from Republican former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, with polls showing the governor trailing Rubio by 10 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/x1297.xml?ReleaseID=1445\">more than 20 percentage points<\/a> in a GOP primary match-up. Republicans have encouraged Crist to drop out of the race to save their party a divisive and expensive primary, but now he&#8217;s kept them in suspense by failing to state whether or not he&#8217;s preparing to launch an Independent bid. The filing deadline by which to make that decision is noon on Friday.<span id=\"more-83259\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2010\/election_2010_senate_elections\/florida\/election_2010_florida_senate\">A recent Rasmussen Reports poll<\/a> showed Crist placing second in a three-way race between Rubio, Crist and the Democratic frontrunner, Rep. Kendrick Meek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the suspense continues&#8230; Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) has indicated he will wait until Thursday to announce whether he plans to run for Florida Senate as a Republican or switch his party affiliation to Independent, according to The Associated Press, leaving one of the most closely watched congressional races of 2010 up in the air. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}