Val Demings embraces hard left Democrats in Florida Senate run
Fox News
Democratic Rep. Val Demings of Florida continues her embrace of far-left Democrats in her bid to unseat Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, holding a fundraiser on Monday hosted by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Demings, a former police chief, is apparently undeterred by Lightfoot's soft-on-crime approach despite the Rubio campaign's attempts to paint her with the same brush. The congresswoman herself repeatedly voted against provisions in the Democrats’ hotly contested $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that would prohibit illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds from obtaining legal status.
Demings, who served as one of seven managers in then-President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial, announced in June that she was throwing her hat in the crowded ring of Democrats, including former Rep. Alan Grayson, in the hopes of defeating Rubio next November. Since then, she has aligned herself with several progressives while also condemning the Rubio campaign's attempts to label her a socialist.