Nikki Fried won't back down — and she's got the rights to the classic song boosting her
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried might be down in the polls and fundraising to become Florida’s next Governor, but she is not backing down.
And now she has the rights to use the late Tom Petty’s 33-year-old song to back her up.
The iconic Floridian’s song, “I won’t back down” — an ear worm still getting radio play — was used at Donald Trump rallies to the consternation of Petty’s family, who sent him a cease-and-desist order about it.
But now it’s playing against a montage of key moments in feminist history in a new Fried ad. There are marching suffragists, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi being handed the gavel and Sally Ride becoming the first American woman blasted into space.
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