How is Charlie Christ a turn coat. What did he do?
First it is Charlie "Crist" (no 'h') and he defines a swamp-creature here in Florida in my opinion. He has always been a professional office seeker and started as GOP in Pinellas County FL when it was strongly GOP. He went from the Florida Senate to Jeb Bush's Cabinet as Education Secretary then Attorney General and the succeeded Jeb as single-term GOP Governor.
Got on my wrong side when he almost kissed President Obama when 'O' promised the Tampa-Orlando High-Speed Rail in 2009. In 2010, he tried for the GOP US Senate but lost the Primary to Marco Rubio. He then made an 'Independent' run in that race but lost as #2 of the 3 main candidates.
Leaving the Governorship in 2011, he joined the Morgan&Morgan Law Firm (strongly Democratic) and in the 2012 Election Campaign, he was a speaker at the Democratic Party Convention in favor of President Obama as [Mitt Romney and the Republican Party] "pitched so far to the extreme right on issues important to women, immigrants, seniors and students that they've proven incapable of governing for the people."
In 2014, having changed his party affiliation to Democratic, he ran for FL Governor again but lost to Rick Scott (R) achieving the trifecta of losing a state-wide election as 'R', 'I' and 'D'! He did win the Pinellas County CD-13 US Representative race as a 'D' against ~R incumbent David Jolly in 2016. This was after redistricting that made the District majority 'D' in registration. Since then David Jolly has also left the GOP as an anti-Trumper. Crist won reelection in 2018 with 57% of vote and he voted yes on both articles of the Trump Impeachment.
Turncoat? YES!