{"id":2011237,"date":"2023-08-24T18:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-for-primary-debates-in-floridas-senate-race-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T22:46:29","slug":"democrats-push-for-primary-debates-in-floridas-senate-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-for-primary-debates-in-floridas-senate-race-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats urge for primary debates in Florida&#8217;s Senate race."},"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\">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%2Fdemocrats-push-for-primary-debates-in-floridas-senate-race-2%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=2011237&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--><h2>Florida Democrats Consider Hosting Primary Debate for Senate 2024 Cycle<\/h2>\n<p>Florida Democrats\u2062 are exploring the idea of organizing a primary debate for the Senate 2024 cycle, aiming to make a strong comeback in a\u200c state that has long been dominated by \u2062Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Phil\u200b Ehr, a retired U.S. Navy veteran\u200c who \u2064ran an unsuccessful\u200b bid to oust Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in 2020, launched his Democratic candidacy\u200c for the U.S. Senate earlier this\u200d year. Ehr reached out to \u2062the newly \u200dentered former \u200bRep. Debbie\u2064 Mucarsel-Powell on Wednesday, proposing a series\u2063 of campaign debates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ehr expressed \u200bhis desire for transparency and openness, stating, &#8220;Florida Democrats deserve the opportunity to hear directly from both\u2063 of\u2062 us \u2064about how we will\u200b get it done so they can make an informed decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><h3>Race to Unseat Rick Scott Intensifies<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The race to unseat Rick Scott gained momentum \u2062this week with the entry of Debbie Mucarsel-Powell,\u200c who \u200blaunched her campaign to challenge the three<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-for-primary-debates-in-floridas-senate-race-2\/\" title=\"Democrats urge for primary debates in Florida's Senate race.\">-time \u2062state election \u200cwinner<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a \u200bcampaign video, Mucarsel-Powell criticized Scott&#8217;s stance on\u2064 abortion, taxes, and his previous move to end\u200b federal programs after\u2062 five years, including \u2063Social Security\u200c and\u200c Medicare.<\/p>\n<p><h3>Debates as a Platform\u200b for Spreading \u2064the Democratic\u200d Message<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Florida Democratic \u2063Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried supported \u200dthe\u200b idea of debates, emphasizing the importance of reaching out to voters across party lines. \u2063While\u200c the party cannot endorse\u2064 a \u200dspecific\u200b candidate, Fried advocated for the removal of Sen. Rick \u200cScott.<\/p>\n<p>Fried stated, &#8220;Getting an opportunity to present yourself to the\u200c whole state in that kind of\u200c format \u200dthat gets to talk about who they \u2064are, why they\u2019re doing\u2063 what\u2064 they do, only helps get the name ID up, only helps to get our messaging out, and to make sure that people \u200dsee the true difference between our candidates and \u2063Rick Scott.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><h3>Mucarsel-Powell&#8217;s Background and Scott&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mucarsel-Powell, \u200dan Ecuadorian immigrant, previously won Florida&#8217;s 26th District in 2018 but \u2063lost the seat in 2020. The\u2062 Scott\u200b campaign labeled her a \u200c&#8221;socialist&#8221; and highlighted her alignment with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We\u2019d \u200clike to welcome\u200b yet another \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-senate-candidate-announces-support-for-medicare-for-all\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Dem Senate Candidate Announces Support for Medicare for All\">failed congressional candidate<\/a> to the crowded Democrat primary,&#8221; \u200bScott\u2019s communications director, Priscilla \u200bIvasco, said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><h3>National Level Primary Debates<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>While the Democratic Party does\u200d not plan to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-for-primary-debates-in-floridas-senate-race\/\" title=\"Democrats urge for primary debates in Florida's Senate race.\">hold primary debates<\/a> for the presidential race, Republicans recently\u2062 held their first\u2062 primary \u2062debate. Some \u2062Democratic\u200c candidates, such as\u200b Marianne\u2063 Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy \u200dJr., have urged\u200d the Democratic\u200c National Committee to host \u200bprimary debates.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out\u200d to Mucarsel-Powell&#8217;s campaign for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Democrats are considering a primary debate for the Senate 2024 cycle, aiming to regain ground in a Republican-dominated state. Phil Ehr, a retired Navy veteran who previously ran against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), has announced his Democratic candidacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2011238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2011237","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=2011237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}