Democrats agonize over who should try to dethrone Rubio

[brooklynite]

Politico

TALLAHASSEE — The race to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio may turn into another battle that pits the Democrats’ progressive faction against its moderate establishment — to Rubio’s possible benefit.

Democrats initially hoped that Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a moderate Democrat who fled Communist Vietnam as a child, would be the strongest challenger to the conservative Cuban-American Republican in Florida’s 2022 Senate race. The 42-year-old Murphy first won her seat by toppling 12-term incumbent GOP Rep. John Mica and has since won two more races in a highly competitive central Florida district.

While Murphy ponders jumping into the Senate race, she may find her path blocked by Aramis Ayala, a former state attorney whose political career was aided by billionaire George Soros and who could be helped again by a network of liberal donors. Aramis served one term as state attorney in Orange and Osceola counties, the growing heart of central Florida that has turned into one of the state’s Democratic bastions.

Ayala, a Black Democrat, put a campaign-styled video out last week on social media where she teased a possible run. She later said in an interview that she is seriously considering running for the Senate seat because the state needs someone who can “ignite hope” among its residents and change the “status quo” represented by Rubio.

[2naSalit]

1. agonize?

[Funtatlaguy]

2. What about Governor? Please beat DeSantis

Val Demmings?

[Jerry2144]

3. A full chamber pot

would still be preferable to Rubio. And less odious, too.

[Takket]

4. the candidate isn't going to be very relevent if the voter supression bill goes through

Florida was already a suppressed state BEFORE the new bill, which will even make it worse. We NEED the John Lewis voting rights act MANCHIN AND SINEMA

[CrackityJones75]

5. Oh? Are we in disarray again?

Why does this crap get posted here? Used to be it wasn’t allowed.