Murphy, meanwhile, overcame a challenge from Rep. Alan Grayson, earning 60 percent of the vote to Grayson’s 17 percent, according to the AP. Earlier this month, Murphy stopped running ads, signaling that he’s conserving his war chest for Rubio.
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Rep. Murphy has represented the Florida’s 18th congressional district since January 2013.
Arpaio had amassed a war chest of more than $10 million.
He will now have to change public perception, not only from when he ran lost the presidential bid, but also the criticisms what came up while he was Senator-among them, his absence from votes while he was running for president.
“He is a hyper-partisan liberal and Florida can not afford a hyper-partisan liberal in the United States Senate”, Rubio said about Murphy teeing up his general election argument against his foe. Marco Rubio and Democrat Patrick Murphy easily won their respective parties’ nominations.
Democrats also are hoping to gain seats in the heavily Republican delegation to the U.S. House in a lively campaign season unleashed by court-mandated redistricting seen as chipping away advantages of incumbents. Marco Rubio’s last-minute decision to seek reelection after his failed bid for the White House didn’t eliminate all the Republican competition. RealClearPolitics shows Rubio will start his campaign with a six-point edge over Murphy.
It’s a fairly big primary day around the country and, alas for us touts, it looks like the chalk’s going to hold pretty much everywhere.
With 87.5 percent of precincts reporting, Rubio was leading developer Carlos Beruff by roughly 53 percentage points — carrying nearly 71.9 percent of the vote to Beruff’s 18.7 percent.
In Florida, Rubio almost cleared a five-man field when he dramatically entered the primary this summer, three months after ending his unsuccessful presidential bid.
Senator Marco Rubio supporters celebrated the incumbent’s victory in the G-O-P primary race for his current seat.
Grayson’s camp said the representative will not support Murphy. The state is considered a tossup in November, but Rubio has led both Democrats in recent polls as Grayson and Murphy attacked each other’s ethics. That’s because Grayson’s problems ranged from having a fund set up in the Cayman Islands in order to solicit funds from foreign investors to his ex-wife accusing him of domestic abuse.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, speaks to workers at a campaign office for Rep.
Wasserman Schultz resigned as chairwoman of the DNC after Wikileaks published a batch of embarrassing emails from inside the committee.
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It was the first time Wasserman Schultz had faced a primary opponent in her heavily Democratic suburban Fort Lauderdale district. The Manatee County Republican loaned his campaign more than $8 million through August 10.
