Demings Pushes Turnout, But Florida Numbers Appear to Favor Rubio
After a year of campaigning in her bid to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Democratic challenger Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) defined in one nine-word Nov. 6 Twitter post what it will take to win Nov. 8.
“This election will come down to one thing: turnout,” she wrote.
The problem for Demings and fellow Democrats is the GOP has more voters to turn out in the rapidly reddening Sunshine State and early voting figures indicate Republicans are, indeed, turning out.
In November 2021, just three years after Democrats had a 260,000 advantage in registered voters statewide, the number of enrolled Republicans voters exceeded those of Democrats for the first time in Florida history….