Opinion by Lizette Alvarez: How a law-and-order Democrat could disrupt Rubio’s glide to reelection
Senate votes, seeming unconcerned about the possibility of giving his opponents weapons to use against him.
A sense of entitlement runs deep in career politicians. And maybe Florida’s increasingly Republican leanings will be enough to let Rubio coast to victory in November. Recent polling favors him; the FiveThirtyEight pegging him with a 4.6-percentage-point lead includes polls with Rubio leads of up to 7 points and as few as 2. would like to focus on the polls within the margin of error. It is difficult to imagine a Democratic challenger with a résumé better suited to unseating Rubio.
She’s a Black, centrist, law-and-order politician, with 27 years in law enforcement, four of them as Orlando police chief.40 percent. Did I mention she drives a red Harley? Demings wields her law-enforcement experience as a different kind of police shield: It deflects the soft-on-crime attacks that Republicans trot out every election cycle. Rubio has, of course, accused Demings of wanting to “defund the police,” to which she responds,
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