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|state=Florida

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|terms=January 2, 2007 – Present

|terms=January 2, 2007 – January 4, 2011

|preceded=[[Jeb Bush]]

|preceded=[[Jeb Bush]]

|former=n

|former=y

|succeeded=

|succeeded=[[Rick Scott]]

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'''Charlie Crist''' (1956- ), is the current Governor of the state of [[Florida]] and a former member of the [[Republican Party]].  

'''Charlie Crist''' (1956- ), is the former Governor of the state of [[Florida]] and a former member of the [[Republican Party]].  

Crist is running for the U.S. Senate in 2010; his rival in the 2010 GOP primary was state House Speaker [[Marco Rubio]], a conservative Cuban American. Crist started trailing in the polls to Rubio by large margins and in April 2010 he decided to run as a Independent since it was almost certain he would lose the Republican nomination to Rubio.

Crist ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010; his rival in the 2010 GOP primary was state House Speaker [[Marco Rubio]], a conservative Cuban American. Crist started trailing in the polls to Rubio by large margins and in April 2010 he decided to run as a Independent since it was almost certain he would lose the Republican nomination to Rubio. He lost to Rubio anyway, by a margin of 49% to 30%, with [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Kendrick Meek]] getting 20% of the vote.

==Career==

==Career==