Good video, though I would focused less on the orange buffoon and more address economic issues. Demings for sure is an A-tier candidate and our best shot to bring down Rubio, who's a spineless coward. Her law enforcement background is definitely helpful and makes "Defund the police" fearmongering attacks fall flat.
Anyway, Lean R for now. It's a Dem-midterm and FL is a slightly red leaning state. These are severe obstacles to overcome in a closely divided state. However, if Demings loses by more than 4 pts without major campaign errors, it tells us that candidate quality in FL really doesn't matter much, if anything. It's not a must win pickup, but it would be bittersweet to retire Rubio and likely protect or expand our senate majority.
I get that this entire 'candidate quality' discourse is extremely subjective and volatile and all, but in what universe is Val Demings an A-tier candidate or even a particularly strong recruit? If your main criterion for "strong candidate" is "can energize an already largely energized base without appealing to any center-right/Trump voters/R-trending cohort," then I agree that she’s a strong candidate, but I think we know how this movie ends by now, don’t we?
Bc she's basically the antithesis (or closest) of a Democratic candidate could be to the GOP's talking points (defund the police, socialism, etc.)
I have to agree with IndyRep on this one, Demings hasn't really done anything to distinguish herself as a particularly strong candidate. The hype for her as a a candidate for Senate/Governor next year is build entirely off of VP speculation from last year (which even then, was completely unearned for a 2-term backbencher in the House).
