As the midterm elections approach, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has a prayer request: that President Joe Biden campaign against him on his home turf.
Posted via Twitter, Senator Rubio responded to a post from President Biden’s account that equated support for the freedoms of law-abiding citizens under the Second Amendment with a lack of support for law enforcement.
For this I am asking you to pray @potus will come to Florida to campaign against me https://t.co/8FFKnZUEM8
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 26, 2022
For Democratic candidates who will face voters in November, especially in red states, Biden is seen as a liability and a liability to their campaigns. Given chronically low approval numbers and many Americans rightly blaming their economic struggles on Biden and his party, Biden showing up to ostensibly assist Democrats in Florida would likely do the opposite. Even if Rubio’s prayers are answered and Biden decides to travel to Florida before the midterms, the president could make the trip alone.
Already in the 2022 midterm election cycle, several Democrats running for statewide office avoided Biden when he visited their states. When Biden visited Ohio in June, Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate and governor cited “scheduling conflicts” and refused to appear with the president.
Similarly, in January, Stacey Abrams abandoned Biden during his visit to Georgia, even though his trip focused on voting rights – which is a central issue for Abrams and on which the difficult loss has tied her political career.
In Florida, Rubio is likely to face Republican U.S. Val Demings – once on Biden’s shortlist for vice president in 2020 – a former Orlando police chief who has since left law enforcement jumped to the left to draw support from radical Democrats -Police Policy.
Most recently, Demings was scheduled to campaign with state Rep. Anna Eskamani, who has vocally advocated opposition to police funding but ultimately withdrew. Demings also previously called the city of Minneapolis’ plan to eliminate the police department a “very thoughtful” proposal and she ran a campaign as far from Florida as she could in San Francisco, radically rebuffing police-backed Mayor London Breed in June.
“Val Demings went to Washington and abandoned the men and women who serve in law enforcement, calling defunding the police ‘well-thought-out’ and violent riots a ‘beautiful sight,'” noted Rubio campaign communications director Elizabeth Gregory of Anti-Law and Order Demings statements recently. “By voting with Nancy Pelosi and for Biden’s disastrous agenda 100% of the time, Demings has proven that she cares more about following the Democrats’ example in Washington than fighting for the interests of Floridians.”
Rubio, despite Biden’s claims that he does not support the police, did just that approved by the National Association of Police Organizations with 55 in Florida sheriffs and other Sunshine State law enforcement groups.
Pelosi’s puppet, Val Demings, went to Washington and became the next radical rubber stamp pic.twitter.com/crQdHko1gn
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 19, 2022
