FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — They engaged in the obligatory, predebate handshake. But when the TV cameras went on Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Val Demings, his challenger, engaged in a heated and aggressive debate, repeatedly shredding each other with descriptions like “lie” and “crazy.”
If the debate was anything, it was decidedly not senatorial — at least by traditional, old-school standards.
Republican incumbent Rubio and Democratic challenger Demings often talked over each other, and often differed in the most basic facts.
