Jacob Ogles
Democratic Senate candidate Val Demings rallied Democratic voters in one of the most conservative corners of Florida on Thursday.
Rep. Demings, an Orlando Democrat, is challenging GOP Sen. Marco Rubio in the midterms this year. She told supporters at the Flip Florida Blue Luncheon in Fort Myers that the race will undoubtedly be hard, but that’s all the more reason to fight to flip the seat.
“We don’t agonize. We organize,” Demings told supporters.
She stressed her background as a law enforcement officer and former chief of police in Orlando. “The first woman in the history of the department,” she said of her tenure to applause. “It took 132 years, I’m just saying, for Orlando to get its first woman police chief. But we got it.”
She didn’t shy from discussing her time in the House, including being selected as a House manager the first time former President Donald Trump was impeached.
That shows her law and order credentials in contrast to Rubio, who she attacked several times as a partisan with a poor voting attendance record.
“I am running for the United States Senate and guess what?” Demings said. “I will show up for work.”
She spoke in Fort Myers as hearings continue for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who could become the first Supreme Court justice to hail from Florida. The Democratic Congresswoman said if she were in the Senate now, she would vote to confirm Jackson, another statement that sparked loud applause.
“Aren’t we Florida Proud?” she stated, repeating a hashtag she has used repeatedly on social media as hearings played out.
She also discussed an energizing issue for Democrats this year, recounting her own experience on Jan. 6 when rioters disrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s defeat of former President Trump.
She was in the Capitol at the time with about 75 other members of Congress, and recalls one lawmakers turning to her and asking how everything would play out.
“I don’t know,” Demings said, “but if we all die today, if we are who we say we are as a nation, if we are as big and bad as we say we are, if the rule of law and Constitution mean anything, then another group will come and certify Joe Biden as the next President of the United States.
“Why does it matter? The people have spoken, and we are a government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
15 comments
PeterH
March 24, 2022 at 4:22 pm
When is Marco Rubio going to propose immigration reform legislation?
Tom
March 25, 2022 at 11:53 pm
Where u been hiding Peter h?
Humiliated over your ignorance is hard. Such a fool. As for Dum Dum Demings, no worries. No problem looking into Demings political tree.
LMAO, reving up the red vote.
The war
March 27, 2022 at 11:33 am
The red vote used to be worth a lot until they lost all those voters at Gettysburg lol
Antonio
March 27, 2022 at 11:55 pm
You need to go back to school, the Confederates were mostly Democrats. Republicans aren’t perfect, but this idea that only they can be racists and Democrats can’t is utterly ridiculous.
Time shift
March 28, 2022 at 9:28 pm
I don’t see any democrats with lees flag on their trucks
Republican
Oh wait Lincoln was too progressive my mistake lol
Teemo
March 25, 2022 at 7:43 am
Val, “I lost my service weapon” isn’t going anywhere but back to obscurity.
LM
March 25, 2022 at 1:25 pm
It is a shame there will not be a viable Democrat on the ballot for governor to help turn out the vote. Or much help from the National Democrats. Val is sort of on her own.
Impeach Biden
March 25, 2022 at 8:40 pm
So how do you get a viable Democrat with the complete disaster of “Sleepy” and “Giggles” rising to the top of the Democratic Party with Pelosi and Schumer not far behind. Red Storm coming in November.
Susan Hull
March 26, 2022 at 4:12 pm
That is what you said before the last round of voting . People from all persuasions are disgusted and sick f the nasty politics so-called Republicans are playing. Were you proud of the Supreme Court hearings??
Tom
March 26, 2022 at 8:55 pm
Jackson is confused bout women, or a woman. I’m Not, you are all woman Susan. Enjoy! Peace
Antonio
March 28, 2022 at 12:03 am
Susan, come on. You can’t be serious defending that. A woman asked another woman what a woman was and that woman couldn’t answer. That is utterly ridiculous and you know it. It’s not transphobic or bigoted to state objective truth.
Stair man
March 27, 2022 at 11:40 am
Oh no a geriatric red storm
I bet half of your fellows Finish those terms by climbing heavens stairs in 2023 from old age lol
Tom
March 25, 2022 at 11:57 pm
Wouldn’t matter.
Biden’s Florida disapproval at 34%
Ciiviqs poll. DeSantis and Rubio win easily.
In the end
March 27, 2022 at 11:42 am
You know what else is at 34 in Florida Tom?
Healthcare.
What’s the point of winning battles when we will win the war lol
Tom
March 26, 2022 at 8:54 pm
Memo LM:
You got none. Who you got. Bong a thong, n fraud or Camillion crisp.
DeSantis is going for the throat, politically not figuratively. Sort of, Biden’s at 34% In Florida. Bong
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