{"id":1730675,"date":"2022-11-08T20:33:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730675"},"modified":"2022-11-08T20:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:33:30","slug":"florida-voters-defund-chief-val-demings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-voters-defund-chief-val-demings\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Voters Defund \u2018Chief\u2019 Val Demings"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fflorida-voters-defund-chief-val-demings%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=1730675&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>Democrat Val Demings, who campaigned heavily on her status as a former police chief but failed to attract law enforcement endorsements, lost to Sen. Marco Rubio (R.) in Florida&#8217;s Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio led Demings by 12 points with 74 percent of the vote reported just past 8 p.m. Tuesday night when major networks called the race. Rubio even led historically blue Miami-Dade County by seven points\u2014he lost the county by 11 points in 2016, marking a whopping 18-point swing in just six years.<\/p>\n<p>Demings, a former Orlando police chief, largely centered her pitch to voters on her law enforcement background in an attempt to brush aside Republicans&#8217; &#8220;soft on crime&#8221; attacks. During an August 17 interview, for example, Demings <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/val-demings-says-i-am-the-police-florida-sheriffs-say-thats-ridiculous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/val-demings-says-i-am-the-police-florida-sheriffs-say-thats-ridiculous\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667935513573000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0zxwYtpoJNaJlhRkrJ8n7a\">argued<\/a> she&#8217;s immune to criticism on crime because she is &#8220;the police,&#8221; and former president Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OV3Cxv6P9Nc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DOV3Cxv6P9Nc&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667935513573000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0t71xb14Ws87heGWUUqJa9\">emphasized<\/a> her &#8220;27 years in law enforcement&#8221; in a digital ad he filmed for the Florida Democrat in the race&#8217;s closing days.<\/p>\n<p>Demings&#8217;s status as a former cop, however, failed to impress the overwhelming majority of Florida&#8217;s law enforcement community. Fifty-six of the state&#8217;s 66 sheriffs <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/val-demings-says-its-harder-to-be-a-politician-than-a-police-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/val-demings-says-its-harder-to-be-a-politician-than-a-police-officer\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667935513573000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1GyXYyKbJCHukw7OcYKEMP\">backed Rubio<\/a>, as did the state&#8217;s Fraternal Order of Police and Police Benevolent Association. Many of those sheriffs <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/val-demings-says-i-am-the-police-florida-sheriffs-say-thats-ridiculous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/val-demings-says-i-am-the-police-florida-sheriffs-say-thats-ridiculous\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667935513573000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0zxwYtpoJNaJlhRkrJ8n7a\">accused<\/a> Demings of turning on them during her three-term tenure as a congresswoman, citing in part the Democrat&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-radical-activists-this-florida-dem-said-would-dismantle-police-in-very-thoughtful-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-radical-activists-this-florida-dem-said-would-dismantle-police-in-very-thoughtful-way\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667935513573000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2QpvRb0vhBD-Y8GpYpDuzC\">June 2020 support<\/a> for the far-left Minneapolis City Council as it worked to &#8220;abolish the Minneapolis Police system as we know it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Demings responded by attacking the sheriffs who endorsed Rubio, accusing them in August of &#8220;playing political games.&#8221; Months later, in October, the Democrat asserted that it&#8217;s harder to be a politician than a police officer, a remark that prompted a fresh wave of criticism from Florida cops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For congresswoman Demings to say that sitting around in Washington and voting with [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi 100 percent of the time is a harder job than what we do every day is just despicable,&#8221; Marion County sheriff Billy Woods told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> at the time. &#8220;It proves once and for all that she&#8217;s completely abandoned the law enforcement community and turned into a creature of the swamp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rubio joined the Senate in 2011 and will be sworn in for his third term in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Val Demings, who campaigned heavily on her status as a former police chief but failed to attract law enforcement endorsements, lost to Sen. 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