{"id":561240,"date":"2021-06-11T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T20:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=561240"},"modified":"2021-06-11T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T20:51:52","slug":"democrat-running-against-rubio-releases-first-campaign-ad-doesnt-list-single-congressional-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-running-against-rubio-releases-first-campaign-ad-doesnt-list-single-congressional-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Running Against Rubio Releases First Campaign Ad, Doesn\u2019t List Single Congressional Accomplishment"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdemocrat-running-against-rubio-releases-first-campaign-ad-doesnt-list-single-congressional-accomplishment%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=561240&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-1227832055.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>This week, Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) announced that she will run for U.S. Senate and challenge incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).<\/p>\n<p>In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=421g_3k3sMc\">announcement video<\/a>, however, Demings failed to list any accomplishments during her tenure as a Congresswoman in the U.S. House of Representatives, having been elected in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Demings begins her announcement video as any politician would \u2014 with a biography, pointing out that she \u201cgrew up in the south; poor, black, and female,\u201d before explaining that her father was a janitor and her mother was a maid. She then describes how she moved to Orlando, FL, from Jacksonville to become a police officer, eventually becoming Orlando\u2019s chief of police.<\/p>\n<p>She includes news clips of her time as police chief, including one of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer crediting her with the \u201cmost dramatic decrease in violent crime in the city\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as Demings pivots to discuss her election to congress, her accomplishments disappear, mentioning only committee assignments (she\u2019s a member of the homeland security, judiciary, and intelligence committees), far from a clear \u201cwin\u201d for her constituents or the people of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The only other insight into her time as a congresswoman regard her repeated attacks on former President Donald Trump, who is no longer in office (but is currently residing in Florida). Demings contrasts her criticism of Trump with Rubio\u2019s willingness to work with the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump isn\u2019t president anymore. Sure, referencing the former Commander in Chief may attract the attention of those in the Sunshine State who still hate Trump more than anything else in the world, and Demings does have a primary to worry about, but Florida voted for Trump twice, so attacking the him isn\u2019t likely to help her chances in a statewide election.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we all know that a primary is very different and requires members of the same party to prove they are farther Left or Right than their opponents, but a campaign video like this, which leaves out any actual congressional accomplishments, seems like a miss.<\/p>\n<p>The question then becomes, <em>why<\/em> didn\u2019t she highlight her congressional record in her video, which is meant to act as her introduction to the people of Florida, even though she must first fight her way through a bruising primary (even though she has a good chance of beating former Rep. Alan Grayson, the man who compared the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan).<\/p>\n<p>One reason Demings seems to be avoiding her Congressional history could be her 100% rating with the left-wing Human Rights Campaign (whose name is a misnomer) and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Given highlights of her legislative accomplishments include the naming of two post offices and a bill promising the U.S. would be tough on Russia President Vladimir Putin, the logic her silence on her governmental experience seems clear.<\/p>\n<p><em>Full disclosure: Ashe Schow previously worked for Sen. Marco Rubio\u2019s communications director a decade ago during her time at Heritage Action.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) announced that she will run for U.S. Senate and challenge incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).In her announcement video, however, Demings failed to list any &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280064,"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-1227832055.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Democrat Running Against Rubio Releases First Campaign Ad, Doesn\u2019t List Single Congressional Accomplishment","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561240","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-1227832055.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Democrat Running Against Rubio Releases First Campaign Ad, Doesn\u2019t List Single Congressional Accomplishment","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561240","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=561240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}