Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a former Democratic congresswoman from Florida, announced that she plans to challenge Sen. Rick Scott in the 2024 election.
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Mucarsel-Powell beat a Republican incumbent to win her only term in Congress in 2018 before losing to Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez in a seat that has switched parties several times in recent elections. seek the White House: former President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
But Scott has never run in a presidential election year, when Democrats turn out in higher numbers. That might not be enough in a state where Republicans have taken a sizable lead in voter registration after decades of Democratic dominance. In 2022, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio won re-election by more than 16 percentage points and DeSantis by nearly 20.
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