A.G. Gancarski
FloridaPolitics.com caught up with Republican Senate candidate Todd Wilcox in Jacksonville Thursday, where he gave his thoughts on the possible re-entry of Marco Rubio into the race, and the mass shooting in Orlando Sunday.
The big narrative of the week in the Florida Senate race involves Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Marco Rubio having a conversation in the wake of the Pulse incident, with CLC being willing to step aside if Rubio wanted in.
Wilcox’s take?
“It smacks of … calculation,” he told FloridaPolitics.com.
Regarding Lopez-Cantera and David Jolly being willing to step aside for Rubio, Wilcox described it as “wishy-washy.”
And Wilcox, as he’s had to say repeatedly this month, is “in the race no matter what.”
His experience in the Global War on Terror is his calling card, he believes, in “an election defined by national security” in the wake of Pulse.
Wilcox’s experience is unique: he’s the only person in the Senate race who speaks Arabic, with combat experience in the theaters of warfare against the jihadis.
This experience, Wilcox contends, is more substantial than that gleaned by a politician receiving “classified briefings.”
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Of course, as Sunday taught us, the War on Terror is now on the homefront.
“Orlando and America are forever changed,” Wilcox said, with the “fight at our doorstep.”
“We are at war,” Wilcox added. “This is a wake-up call to voters [who need to] start electing people who understand” the conflict as it is.
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Wilcox also addressed Veterans’ Court, an initiative of the 4th Judicial Circuit.
