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A swing state no more? GOP confidence grows in Florida

Democrats are increasingly concerned that Florida may be slipping away this fall — and perhaps beyond — as emboldened Republicans seize on divisive cultural issues and demographic shifts in crucial contests for governor and the U.S. Senate

The Independent UK

Senate debates zero in on abortion

Candidates from each political party are focused on painting one another as extremists on abortion.

Axios

After Parkland shooting, Rubio vowed to support law raising minimum age to buy assault-style rifle. Now he opposes it

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Immediately after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., promised to support a law raising the minimum legal age for buying assault-style rifles.

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Former police officer and Senate candidate Val Demings teases Herschel Walker with her badge: ‘This one’s real’

The Florida congresswoman spent 27 years with the Orlando Police Department

The Independent UK

Biden – live: Midterms push president to give gas price speech as approval rating flatlines

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The Independent UK

Biden to release 15m barrels from strategic reserve in effort to tamp down gas prices – as it happened

Move is president’s attempt to mitigate concerns over the economy as midterms approach

The Guardian - US

Midterms – live: Biden promises to protect abortion in law if Democrats keep control of Congress

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Val Demings goes on attack against Marco Rubio in Florida Senate debate

Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings of Florida went on the attack Tuesday in her first debate against Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.

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Marco Rubio panned for saying voting drop boxes are dangerous because people may blow them up

Republican lawmaker accuses Democrats of wanting a ‘federal takeover’ of election system

The Independent UK

Rubio and Demings trade barbs on abortion and guns in Florida debate

The candidates took shots at one another on their records in office and personal beliefs.

Axios

Val Demings and Marco Rubio clash in a strikingly aggressive Senate debate

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.”

Tribune News Service

Marco Rubio and Val Demings in furious clashes on abortion and gun safety in Florida debate

The three-term congresswoman seeks to knock off the GOP incumbent in an increasingly Republican state

The Independent UK

Takeaways from a contentious US Senate debate between Val Demings and Marco Rubio

MIAMI — Democratic Rep. Val Demings and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio argued over abortion rights, recovery efforts from Hurricane Ian and immigration policy on Tuesday night, in the lone debate of a contentious U.S. Senate race that’s set to conclude in three weeks.

Miami Herald

Demings goes on attack against Rubio in Fla. Senate debate

Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings went on the attack in her first debate against Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, castigating him as a serial liar, while Rubio criticized her for supporting President Joe Biden’s economic agenda

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US midterms: The 10 key races that will decide fate of the Senate

With 35 Senate seats up for grabs, Republicans are pushing to regain control of the chamber to frustrate Biden’s agenda.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Demings knocks Rubio for missing hurricane relief vote. She opposed some similar bills

WASHINGTON — Val Demings has repeatedly criticized Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for failing to vote last week on a broad spending bill that would have allocated additional billions of dollars for natural-disaster relief, accusing her foe in this year’s election of letting down Florida residents after Hurricane Ian.

Miami Herald

Push for US sanctions against supporters of Haitian gang violence grows in Congress

As support for tough sanctions against Haitian gangs and those financing them grows in U.S. political circles, two Democratic lawmakers want to require the U.S. government to carry out investigations into Haitian political and economic figures and organizations suspected of supporting gang activities in Haiti.

Orlando Sentinel

Rubio leads Demings by 6 points in new Mason-Dixon poll

ORLANDO, Fla. — Marco Rubio has maintained his lead over Val Demings in Florida’s U.S. Senate race, a poll released Tuesday finds.

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Miami Herald

‘Politics are going to get injected’: Days after Ian, campaigns roar back to life

Even one of the state’s worst natural disasters couldn’t keep politics at bay for long in Florida.

The Independent UK

Democrats in Florida seek to win over Latinos on gun control

Democrats in Florida are trying to make inroads with Latino voters by focusing on gun safety

Reuters

Biden to aim at 'bully' DeSantis in Florida, as 2024 looms

Joe Biden will for the first time as U.S. president hold a political rally in a state where he lost in 2020, when he treks to Florida on Tuesday to stage a showdown with potential 2024 rival, fierce critic and possible Trump successor Ron DeSantis.

Miami Herald

After abortion ruling, Demings tries to paint Republicans as anti-freedom

MIAMI — Republicans have long claimed the mantle of the party of freedom.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Rubio cosponsors bill by Graham banning abortions nationally after 15 weeks

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is co-sponsoring a bill that would ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks, an aide confirmed Wednesday, throwing support behind a measure that both aligns with his longstanding desire to restrict access to abortion and risks complicating his reelection bid less than two months before Election Day.

Salon

Marco Rubio, Judge Cannon and Trump

Marco Rubio once called Trump "dangerous." Now he's the Mar-a-Lago judge's benefactor and biggest defender

Miami Herald

Val Demings says she supports abortion up to ‘time of viability’ after Rubio attacks

MIAMI — U.S. Rep. Val Demings said Friday she supports women or girls having the right to an abortion “up to the time of viability of the fetus,” a day after U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio attacked the Florida congresswoman for supporting “abortion on demand, taxpayer-funded at any point in a…

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