“And Senator Marco Rubio wants to see Trump elected as our next president”. After he announced he’d seek a second Senate term, those numbers dipped to 46 percent approval and 43 percent disapproval.
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Senator Marco Rubio, the former Republican presidential candidate, has won the party’s Senate primary in Florida.
Both Republican and Democratic incumbents face challenges from their respective party’s insurgent wing in Tuesday primaries, as GOP Sen.
Rubio had declared during his failed presidential campaign that he would not run again for Senate.
Rubio and Murphy were already focusing on each other before the primary, with Rubio saying Murphy is a privileged son of a millionaire who has never earned anything himself, and Murphy saying Rubio cares more about political ambitions than the state.
It was the first time Wasserman Schultz had faced a primary opponent in her heavily Democratic suburban Fort Lauderdale district.
The primary also sets the field for a race that could determine whether Democrats regain control of the U.S. Senate. Rubio posed about Murphy, who is endorsed by Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
On the Democratic side, the battle between Grayson and Murphy looked like it would turn into a proxy fight between progressive and centrist Democrats.
“Rubio is faring better than Trump and has a roughly five-point polling edge over Murphy”, Sabato wrote.
According to Politico, pulling the ads saved the Murphy campaign $800,000, and the lack of presence did nothing to hurt him, as he had 58.9 percent of the vote to his name with 89 percent of precincts reporting. As Donald Trump’s polls numbers continue to slide, Murphy’s strategy has been to tie Rubio to the Republican presidential nominee.
Wasserman Schultz easily beat Tim Canova, a Bernie Sanders-backed law professor who was able to raise more than $3 million in a primary colored by leaked emails revealing that DNC officials had worked against Sanders to favor Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.
But Mr. Grayson’s claim as a liberal firebrand was tarnished by a major ethics complaint and domestic violence reports, while Mr. Murphy has largely weathered unflattering scrutiny of his resume to build a significant lead in recent polls. Until Rubio decided in June to seek another term, it was expected that Murphy’s Republican challenger would also be a lesser known candidate. Adding to the intrigue is that the fates of the two senators will likely play a big role in whether Republicans can upset expectations and maintain majority control of the Senate after the November 8 election.
After spending a year running for president and losing 66 out of 67 counties in his home state to Trump, Rubio repeatedly declared he was ready to leave office.
Rubio wasted no time criticizing the Democratic nominee, U.S. Sen.
In Florida, political watchers are scouring primary returns in a bevy of House districts that were been redrawn just months ago by a court-ordered redistricting.
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Florida will eventually send at least eight new House members to Washington. If Democrats sweep all four seats seen as competitive in November, that Republican advantage could be reduced to 14-13.
