“I don’t make any assumptions or underestimate how difficult it is going to be,” she says of her challenge to Rick Scott.
Rick ScottMucarsel-Powell, who immigrated from Ecuador at the age of 14, is a Spanish-speaking Hispanic candidate from Miami-Dade who gives Democrats an opportunity to reassert themselves in one of the most crucial counties in the state. She’s jumping into the race“I’ve been hearing from a lot of Florida families and they are ready for new leadership, for a change,” said Mucarsel-Powell in an interview, where she lashed out at Scott as a “complete fraud” who has “failed Floridians.
Mucarsel-Powell, who officially entered the race on Tuesday, said she came to her decision after lengthy conversations with family members about what could be an expensive and difficult race, especially since Scott has shown a willingness to spend tens of millions of his own money in past elections. “I don’t make any assumptions or underestimate how difficult it is going to be,” Mucarsel-Powell said. “This is a divided country. It’s a divided state. But what I have realized, what I have learned is that when you listen to Floridians across the state and you put their interests first, no amount of money is going to stop them from sending the right person to serve them.”
Many have viewed Florida as a battleground state for the past two decades, but it has been trending more and more Republican in recent elections. Former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 — and Gov. Ron DeSantis won reelection by more than 19 points last year. National Democratic groups last year did not invest large amounts of money in either the governor’s race or the Senate race between former Rep. Val Demings and Sen.Still, Democrats contend that Scott is vulnerable.
. The proposal initially called for all Americans to pay income tax and for federal legislation to sunset in five years, including social security. Scott wound up backtracking his proposal and has insisted he would never support getting rid of social security.
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