Watch DeSantis Crist Florida governor debate stay

Tampa, Fla. (WFLA) – The 2 primary candidates working for governor of Florida will meet face-to-face on the talk stage for the primary and solely time on Monday evening.

The gubernatorial debate is being held from 7pm to 8pm on the Dawn Theater in Fort Pierce. It is going to give Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Charlie Crist one final likelihood to attraction to voters, who will vote within the 2022 midterm elections.

Governor DeSantis is presently in search of a second time period as governor of Florida. He was first elected in 2018, defeating Democrat Andrew Gillum to take the place vacated by Rick Scott. Earlier than being elected governor, DeSantis was a member of the USA Home of Representatives.

DeSantis is from Dunedin. He attended Yale College after which Harvard Regulation College. The governor is a JAG officer in the USA Navy and served as an advisor to a SEAL in Iraq.

Crist, who grew up in St.Petersburg, has held various political workplaces, each on the state and federal ranges. Most lately, Crist has represented Florida’s thirteenth Congressional District in the USA Home of Representatives. He resigned in August after profitable the Democratic nomination within the race for governor. He was elected to Congress in 2016.

Earlier than being elected to the USA Home of Representatives as a Democrat, Crist was a member of the Republican Occasion. He served as Florida’s commissioner of training and legal professional normal earlier than being elected governor in 2006. He didn’t run for a second time period, selecting as an alternative to run for the USA Senate, the race that finally he misplaced to present Senator Marco Rubio. After campaigning within the Senate, Crist took a break from politics however later introduced that he was becoming a member of the Democratic Occasion. He ran for governor in 2014 however misplaced to Rick Scott.

You may watch Florida’s gubernatorial debate beginning at 7 p.m. ET within the stay streamer above.