Ahead of the August 23rd primary election, Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) joined Fox and Friends to discuss his Senate race against Florida Rep. Val Demings (D). The Florida Democrat has shared polling, indicating that she’s catching up to Rubio in support, but Rubio remains optimistic that voters will reelect him in November.
“Elections are at their best when it’s a clear choice between two candidates,” said Rubio.
Demings and Rubio have been verbally sparred since Demings entered the race.
Demings, citing Roe vs. Wade being overturned, has declared that Rubio is a threat to a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, and Demings has referenced her past in law enforcement as a surefire reason to unseat Rubio.
However, Rubio has received an overwhelming amount of support from the law enforcement community, adding that people are moving to Florida because they’re escaping lawmakers like Demings.
During the interview, Rubio commented that Demings “was a police officer and then she went to Washington and decided she wanted to be part of the Squad and decided that she wanted to be picked as Joe Biden’s Vice President candidate and she turned her back on police officers.”
Moreover, Rubio explained, “I don’t think you move to Florida if you like the way things are going in San Francisco or like the way things are going in New York City. You don’t move to Florida and hope Florida becomes that. You move because you don’t like what’s going on over there.”
“We’ve had a lot of people leave these other states and come to Florida because of the policies of the state legislature and because of the policies of Governor DeSantis, which are built on common sense… they’re not ideological ideas.”
Something else Rubio believes has helped the state is Hispanic voters, commenting that “what they are are working class people. These are small business owners, they’re working-class people. They love America. They know how great America is because they know what life is like in other places and they see a Democratic Party that has been captured by the far left and Marxist misfits.”
Both Rubio and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) are scheduled to speak at the Keep Florida Free Tour rally on Wednesday.
