{"id":72743,"date":"2026-04-28T05:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/former-florida-gov-charlie-crist-is-running-for-mayor-of-st-pete\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:57:11","slug":"former-florida-gov-charlie-crist-is-running-for-mayor-of-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/former-florida-gov-charlie-crist-is-running-for-mayor-of-st-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is running for mayor of St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a> Gov. Charlie Crist is running for St. Petersburg mayor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s official. I&#8217;m now a candidate for mayor of St. Pete. God bless you all,&#8221; he said in a video <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CharlieCrist\/status\/2048858737226490002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted<\/a> to X on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>His post includes the message, &#8220;I\u2019m in! #stpete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ron-desantis-unveils-new-florida-congressional-map-would-give-gop-extra-four-seats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RON DESANTIS UNVEILS NEW FLORIDA CONGRESSIONAL MAP THAT WOULD GIVE THE GOP AN EXTRA FOUR SEATS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve fought for the City of St. Petersburg in the Legislature, as Education Commissioner, Attorney General, and Governor, and as a United States Representative. Now I\u2019m taking that fight back home, to City Hall, where the city government is failing to address issues that matter most to YOU, my neighbors,&#8221; Crist declared on his campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/charliecrist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crist <a href=\"https:\/\/dos.fl.gov\/florida-facts\/florida-history\/florida-governors\/charlie-crist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">served<\/a> as governor of the Sunshine State from early 2007 until early 2011. He was elected to the governorship as a Republican but lost a 2010 U.S. Senate race while running as an independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/desantis-taunts-jeffries-florida-invitedem-leader-responds-20m-warning-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DESANTIS TAUNTS JEFFRIES WITH FLORIDA INVITE \u2014 DEM LEADER RESPONDS WITH $20M WARNING SHOT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He lost the state&#8217;s 2014 gubernatorial contest while running as a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Crist went on to serve in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-of-representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. House of Representatives<\/a> as a Democrat from early 2017 through August 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/desantis-under-pressure-florida-redraw-could-tip-house-balance-gop-map-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DESANTIS UNDER PRESSURE AS FLORIDA REDRAW COULD TIP HOUSE BALANCE IN GOP MAP FIGHT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crist unsuccessfully sought the governorship again, but incumbent Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> shellacked him in the state&#8217;s 2022 gubernatorial contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is running for St. Petersburg mayor. &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s official. I&#8217;m now a candidate for mayor of St. Pete. God bless you all,&#8221; he said in a video posted to X on Monday. His post includes the message, &#8220;I\u2019m in! #stpete.&#8221; RON DESANTIS UNVEILS NEW FLORIDA CONGRESSIONAL MAP THAT WOULD GIVE &#8230; <a title=\"Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is running for mayor of St. Pete\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/former-florida-gov-charlie-crist-is-running-for-mayor-of-st-pete\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is running for mayor of St. Pete\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}