{"id":1730681,"date":"2022-11-08T20:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730681"},"modified":"2022-11-08T20:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:48:05","slug":"marco-rubio-wins-third-term-crushes-challenger-val-demings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marco-rubio-wins-third-term-crushes-challenger-val-demings\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Wins Third Term, Crushes Challenger Val Demings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fmarco-rubio-wins-third-term-crushes-challenger-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=1730681&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 class=\"p1\">Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will return to Washington after decisively turning back Democrat challenger Rep. Val Demings\u2019 (D-Fla.) bid for an upset in their U.S. Senate race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to a projection by Decision Desk HQ, Rubio garnered 56.4 percent, 3.7 million votes, to Demings\u2019s 42.5\u00a0percent, 2.8 million, with 86 percent of the votes counted as of press time, to secure a third six-year term in the Senate, and his second as the state\u2019s senior member in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Rubio-Demings race was one of 34 U.S. Senate elections on ballots across the country, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a> Republican was never considered among vulnerable incumbents being tested in midterm elections where both parties hoped to secure a majority to break the current 50-50 deadlock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rubio, 51, a Miami native elected to the Senate in 2010 after serving eight years in the Florida House, including as House Speaker 2006-08, proclaimed in campaign speeches that his reelection was part of a midterm \u201cred wave\u201d set to sweep across Florida and the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A 27-year career law enforcement officer and former Orlando police chief elected to the House in 2016, Demings ran a spirited campaign but was always the underdog with elections forecaster FiveThirtyEight giving Rubio an 86 percent chance of winning. Rubio also led in all polls since June, with his advantages ranging between 6-to-12 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rubio won despite Demings\u2019 campaign raising $25 million more than the incumbent\u2019s. According to its Oct. 19 Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filing, Demings\u2019 campaign raised $72.3 million, spent $68 million, and had $4.92 million in cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Rubio\u2019s same-day FEC filing, its campaign reported raising $46.6 million, spending $42.67 million, and having $4.1 million in cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But the money advantage did not pay dividends at the ballot box, where in Florida there are now 300,000 more registered Republican voters than those registered as Democrats. In 2018, Democrats had 260,000 more registered voters than the GOP did in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rubio pounded away at Demings as a supporter of President Joe Biden\u2019s policies which he said are responsible for a 40-year high in inflation as part of a two-pronged strategy in attacking his opponents\u2019 congressional record while touting his career as a proven, efficacious lawmaker in \u201cI Get Things Done\u201d ads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His campaign criticized Demings for a voting record that aligns \u201c100 percent\u201d with Biden administration initiatives, emphasized her ties to Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)\u2014including her appointment as Trump impeachment manager\u2014and her allegedly weak support for border security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Demings touted her law enforcement career while<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>campaigning on expanding health care, ensuring abortion access, and on the \u201cdanger to Democracy\u201d that Rubio poses as an alleged sycophant of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She argued that Rubio\u2019s malleable values can be manipulated by extremists and that her moderate views better reflect Florida\u2019s values and needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Among other faults cited in Demings\u2019 campaign was that Rubio has missed 9.2 percent of his Senate roll call votes, more than three times the chamber average. In \u201cChief Demings\u201d ads, she described the election as \u201ca choice between a career politician who doesn\u2019t show up for work and a 27-year law enforcement officer with a proven record of delivering for Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rubio and Demings faced each other face-to-face only once during the campaign, a televised Oct. 11 debate at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-john-haughey\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WEB_JohnHaughley.jpg\" alt=\"John Haughey\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>John Haughey has been a working journalist since 1978 with an extensive background in local government, state legislatures, and growth and development. A graduate of the University of Wyoming, he is a Navy veteran who fought fires at sea during three deployments aboard USS Constellation. He\u2019s been a reporter for daily newspapers in California, Washington, Wyoming, New York, and Florida; a staff writer for Manhattan-based business trade publications.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will return to Washington after decisively turning back Democrat challenger Rep. Val Demings\u2019 (D-Fla.) bid for an upset in their U.S. Senate race.According to a projection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730681","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}