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Scott PowersOctober 14, 2016

Polling done for and released Friday by Democrat Val Demings‘ congressional campaign shows she has a 38-point lead over Republican nominee Thuy Lowe in Florida’s 10th Congressional District. The poll, done by Democratic pollster Global Strategy Group in early October, shows Demings with 59 percent of the vote in the west Orlando district and Lowe with […]

Scott PowersOctober 12, 2016

Democratic U.S. Congressional candidate Val Demings said Wednesday she was shocked and disappointed to find Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica had used her picture and a quote in a campaign mailer and said she in no way endorses him. Democrat “Stephanie Murphy is the right choice for the people of District 7. She will be […]

Scott PowersSeptember 16, 2016

Citing a mixup with a former campaign accountant, Republican congressional candidate Thuy Lowe has failed to file a personal financial disclosure statement for her campaign against Democrat Val Demings in Florida’s 10th Congressional District. Lowe told FloridaPolitics.com the statement was completed and would be filed late Friday afternoon. However it has not been posted by the […]

Scott PowersSeptember 15, 2016

Democratic congressional nominee Val Demings is embarking on a seven-stop “listening tour” with town halls set throughout Florida’s 10th Congressional District in west Orange County, her campaign announced Thursday. Three stops in her tour, which she calls “Lift Every Voice,” have been announced. She’ll appear at Pine Hills Community Church next Tuesday evening; the Callahan […]

Scott PowersAugust 31, 2016

Thuy Lowe has made it into Cosmo. The Republican nominee in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, based in Orlando, is profiled on Cosmopolitan.com as one of “19 Women Who Will Make History if Elected to Congress This Year.“ To do that, Lowe, a retired businesswoman from Sorrento, will need to beat Democratic nominee Val Demings in […]

Scott PowersAugust 30, 2016

If there is vindication in politics, Val Demings is enjoying it Tuesday night, though she would never acknowledge it. The former Orlando Police chief, dubbed years ago as the next big rising star in Central Florida Democratic politics, handily won the Democratic primary to be the nominee in Florida’s 10th Congressional District. “I am so humbled […]

Scott PowersAugust 29, 2016

Heading into the final weekend before the primary, Democratic congressional candidate Bob Poe lent his campaign another $100,000 Friday, bringing his personal investment to just over $2 million in his bid for election in Florida’s 10th Congressional District. Poe vowed from the start to fund much of his campaign and so far the self-made millionaire entrepreneur has bankrolled virtually […]

Associated PressAugust 23, 2016

A former police chief, the former state Democratic Party chairman, an incumbent state senator and a political newcomer are vying to represent an Orlando-area congressional district reshaped so drastically the Republican incumbent decided to run in a new, neighboring district. Florida’s 10th Congressional District now favors Democrats after redistricting. So Republican Rep. Daniel Webster, a […]

Scott PowersAugust 19, 2016

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Democratic congressional candidate Fatima Rita Fahmy is charging that her leading opponent in the Florida’s 10th Congressional primary, Val Demings, is taking money from organizations fighting against Democratic issues such as marijuana, Everglades restoration and renewable energy. The latest criticism is part of Fahmy’s ongoing efforts to paint Demings, a former Orlando police chief who […]

Scott PowersAugust 18, 2016

Democrats Hillary Clinton, Darren Soto and Val Demings and Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio all won commanding straw poll victories at Tuesday night’s Political Salsa event in Orlando, organizers announced late Wednesday. Clinton got 49 to Republican Donald Trump‘s 39 percent in the presidential question, with Libertarian Gary Johnson grabbing 8 percent and Green Party […]

Tag: Florida’s 10th Congressional District
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Val Demings’ poll says she has a 38-point lead in CD 10 race

Val Demings furious about being featured in John Mica mailer

CD 10: Republican Thuy Lowe fails to file personal financial disclosure statement

Val Demings announces ‘listening tour’ in CD 10 race

CD 10 Republican Thuy Lowe makes it into Cosmo

Val Demings earning big CD 10 Democratic primary victory, vindication

Bob Poe rolls another $100K loan into his campaign

Democrats take advantage of CD 10 reshaping

Fatima Rita Fahmy, facing her own finance issues in CD 10, blasts Val Demings for her PAC money

Political Salsa: Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, Darren Soto, Val Demings win straw poll