Charlie Crist says Ill just go there, plays race card again in explaining party switch
by George Bennett | May 7th, 2014
Crist: GOP treatment of "the African-American president" was "a big reason" he left party.
Crists remarks in an interview with Fusion TVs Jorge Ramos echo his claims to Stephen Colbert in February that his infamous Fort Myers stimulus hug of President Barack Obama angered GOP activists in part because Obama was a Democrat, but not just a Democrat, an African-American.
Then-Republican Crist was initially the frontrunner for the partys 2010 Senate nomination, but fell far behind Rubio and left the party to become an independent in 2010. He became a Democrat in December 2012.
You left the Republican Party because you were going to lose to Marco Rubio, Ramos said.
Crist said he left because the partys leadership went off the cliff and I couldnt be consistent with myself and my core beliefs, and stay with a party that was so unfriendly toward the African-American president, Ill just go there.
He referred again to the African-American president and said the way some in the party treated Obama was a big reason he left the GOP.
RNC spokesman Izzy Santa responded to Crists remarks in an e-mail to Fusion: Being a flip-flopper is bad enough, but playing the race card to win over voters is pitiful.
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