{"id":557849,"date":"2021-06-09T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557849"},"modified":"2021-06-09T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:51:15","slug":"val-demings-announces-candidacy-for-florida-senate-race-against-marco-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/val-demings-announces-candidacy-for-florida-senate-race-against-marco-rubio\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Demings Announces Candidacy For Florida Senate Race Against Marco Rubio"},"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\">22<\/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-announces-candidacy-for-florida-senate-race-against-marco-rubio%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=557849&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1227830928-scaled-e1623241907699.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Florida Rep. Val Demings has officially launched her Senate campaign to challenge incumbent Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Demings made the announcement early Wednesday morning in a three-minute-long video posted on her Twitter account, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/557485-florida-rep-val-demings-officially-enters-senate-race-against-rubio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill reported<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cWhen you grow up in the South, poor, black, and female, you have to have faith in progress and opportunity,\u201d Demings said in the opening of the promotional video before talking about her family.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.4583333333333\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m running for U.S. Senate because I will never tire of standing up for what is right. Never tire of serving Florida. Never tire of doing good.<\/p>\n<p>Join my campaign today: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rHVPBuSzKU\">https:\/\/t.co\/rHVPBuSzKU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HuWB80Mrxh\">pic.twitter.com\/HuWB80Mrxh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Val Demings (@valdemings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valdemings\/status\/1402581582528057345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Demings then touted her accomplishments while serving as the Orlando Chief of Police, specifically citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-data.com\/crime\/crime-Orlando-Florida.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decreasing crime rates<\/a> during her tenure from 2007 to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m never tired of representing Florida. not for one single moment,\u201d she said before taking a shot at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/09\/donald-trump-endorsement-marco-rubio-senate-2022-save-america-pac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">former President Donald Trump<\/a> and Congress. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/18\/ivanka-trump-marco-rubio-florida-senate-challenge-rick-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Ivanka Trump Told Rubio She Will Not Challenge Him For Senate)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman then briefly attacked <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/capitalism-senator-marco-rubio-universities-teachers-social-justice-fox-friends-ucf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rubio<\/a>, adding that \u201csome\u201d Senators were preferring \u201cthe same old tired ways of doing business,\u201d and were using \u201ctired talking points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m running for the United States Senate because of two simple words: \u2018Never Tire,&#8217;\u201d Demings said at the end of the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.041958041958\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Democratic Rep. Val Demings announces challenge to GOP Sen. Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S0dUPgt3G8\">https:\/\/t.co\/S0dUPgt3G8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeoffRBennett\/status\/1402600798534750220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Demings has also dismissed attacks from Rubio, who claimed that she was a socialist, and told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/elections\/os-ne-val-demings-senate-run-20210609-67aar5ycjjekfpvyjdrwzwbxhi-story.html#ed=rss_www.sun-sentinel.com\/arcio\/rss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sun Sentential<\/a> that she \u201cwas not\u201d a socialist and \u201cdesperate people will do desperate things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The representative had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/18\/val-demings-senate-marco-rubio-florida-election-2022-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mulled a senate run last month<\/a> but had also been interested in running against Republican Florida Go. Ron DeSantis in 2022. However, Demings was encouraged by national Democrats that she would \u201cdo the most good\u201d running for Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Florida Rep. Val Demings has officially launched her Senate campaign to challenge incumbent Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the 2022 midterm elections.Demings made the announcement early Wednesday morning &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279721,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1227830928-scaled-e1623241907699.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Val Demings Announces Candidacy For Florida Senate Race Against Marco Rubio","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1227830928-scaled-e1623241907699.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Val Demings Announces Candidacy For Florida Senate Race Against Marco Rubio","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557849","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=557849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}