{"id":1676306,"date":"2022-10-06T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676306"},"modified":"2022-10-06T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:20:33","slug":"val-demings-uses-one-of-the-costliest-hurricanes-in-u-s-history-to-raise-campaign-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/val-demings-uses-one-of-the-costliest-hurricanes-in-u-s-history-to-raise-campaign-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Demings Uses \u2018One of the Costliest Hurricanes in U.S. History\u2019 to Raise Campaign Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fval-demings-uses-one-of-the-costliest-hurricanes-in-u-s-history-to-raise-campaign-funds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Florida Dem adopts Obama admin&#8217;s &#8216;never let a crisis go to waste&#8217; mantra in race against Marco Rubio<\/p>\n<p>   National Guardsmen transport meals ready-to-eat to a community cut off by flooding in the wake of Hurricane Ian near the Peace River on October 4, 2022 in Arcadia, Florida. Photo by Sean Rayford\/Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 October 6, 2022 2:15 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Florida Democratic Senate nominee Val Demings is using what she calls &#8220;one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history&#8221; to solicit campaign contributions in her race against Republican Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>Demings on Wednesday released a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valdemings\/status\/1577767995316871169?s=20&amp;t=jeTb7ookq9lRpsSUVzQz-Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign video<\/a> that highlights Hurricane Ian&#8217;s &#8220;staggering scale of wreckage.&#8221; &#8220;Death toll in Florida soars after Hurricane Ian demolished entire communities,&#8221; one chyron in the video reads. &#8220;Ian may be one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history,&#8221; another says. But that &#8220;wreckage&#8221; did not stop Demings from attaching a fundraising link to the video, which directs viewers to an <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/val-demings-social2022?refcode=twitter1005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ActBlue page<\/a> that asks for &#8220;a generous grassroots donation right now to help my people-powered movement flip Florida blue and expand Democrats&#8217; Senate majority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One day later, on Thursday morning, Demings campaign manager Zack Carroll sent supporters emails and texts lamenting the &#8220;unimaginable destruction, loss, and grief&#8221; seen in Florida after Hurricane Ian. That destruction, Carroll wrote, &#8220;meant fundraising took a backseat. Our whole campaign was put on hold last week.&#8221; The hurricane-induced pause &#8220;cost us big time,&#8221; according to Carroll, and as a result, &#8220;Val Demings is way short on fundraising.&#8221; &#8220;To catch up,&#8221; the email continues, &#8220;we&#8217;re calling on this grassroots movement to do something that&#8217;s never been done: Raise $500,000 by midnight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Demings is likely hoping the hurricane will give her an opportunity to turn her political fortunes around after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/fl\/florida-senate-rubio-vs-demings-7382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three consecutive polls<\/a> showing her trailing Rubio by 4, 7, and 6 points. But the move could backfire as Demings and other Florida Democrats use the storm to boost their campaign coffers. In addition to Demings, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlieCrist\/status\/1576967674369671168?s=20&amp;t=9dRFXr9GtxA2FuE20_H3g05DU1e1nPmEl6wz_Sl4IF0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a> those who &#8220;suffered damage from Hurricane Ian&#8221; to &#8220;share [their] story&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Democratic Senate nominee Val Demings is using what she calls &#8220;one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history&#8221; to solicit campaign contributions in her race against Republican Marco Rubio.<br \/>\nThe post Val Demings Uses \u2018One of the Costliest Hurricanes in U.S. History\u2019 to Raise Campaign Funds appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}