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Val Demings is just what lazy, anti-abortion Marco Rubio deserves: a fearless challenger (Opinion)
Miami Herald via Yahoo NewsHe’s running a lazy campaign.
She’s fearless and hard-working.
And — if Florida women angry at the erosion of abortion rights Roe v. Wade gave us vote like their lives depend on this midterm election — he’ll be sweating every last vote.
Perhaps, for the first time, in his maverick political career.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, master of the gift of gab, is so sure that Florida voters will re-elect him over a Democratic Black woman that he hasn’t taken his challenger, U.S. Rep. Val Demings, as seriously as he should.
His confidence stems from the now time and election-tested religious and conservative North-South alliance that makes nationalist whites and Cuban-American Republicans like Rubio political bedfellows.
She’s fearless and hard-working.
And — if Florida women angry at the erosion of abortion rights Roe v. Wade gave us vote like their lives depend on this midterm election — he’ll be sweating every last vote.
Perhaps, for the first time, in his maverick political career.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, master of the gift of gab, is so sure that Florida voters will re-elect him over a Democratic Black woman that he hasn’t taken his challenger, U.S. Rep. Val Demings, as seriously as he should.
His confidence stems from the now time and election-tested religious and conservative North-South alliance that makes nationalist whites and Cuban-American Republicans like Rubio political bedfellows.
At Tuesday night’s debate in Lake Worth and broadcast on NBC, she came out swinging first.
“The senator, who has not run anything at all, but his mouth,” Demings called Rubio.
He, in turn, dished cockiness.
Asked if he would accept the 2022 election results, Rubio said: “Sure, because I’m going to win.”
“The senator, who has not run anything at all, but his mouth,” Demings called Rubio.
He, in turn, dished cockiness.
Asked if he would accept the 2022 election results, Rubio said: “Sure, because I’m going to win.”
Working for the Cuban vote
Unlike others running in statewide races who shy away from controversial Miami, Demings wasn’t afraid to plunge right in and, first, visit “to learn” as soon as she launched her campaign, and then visit again to engage with voters.
Oh yes, she did go for the touristy Cuban tour usually reserved for Republicans.
She played a game of dominoes — with gusto — in Little Havana and she hung out at a house party. Her trips south won her fans — and energized Cuban-American Democrats, who so often feel undervalued and sidelined.
Unlike others running in statewide races who shy away from controversial Miami, Demings wasn’t afraid to plunge right in and, first, visit “to learn” as soon as she launched her campaign, and then visit again to engage with voters.
Oh yes, she did go for the touristy Cuban tour usually reserved for Republicans.
She played a game of dominoes — with gusto — in Little Havana and she hung out at a house party. Her trips south won her fans — and energized Cuban-American Democrats, who so often feel undervalued and sidelined.
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