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Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., is running for Senate in 2022. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
EMILY s List backs Demings in Florida Senate race
By JAMES ARKIN
WASHINGTON EMILY s List endorsed Rep. Val Demings Senate campaign Thursday, giving the Florida Democrat a major boost the day after she officially launched her bid to take on incumbent GOP Sen. Marco Rubio.
Demings, a former police chief and three-term Orlando-area member of Congress, has already received widespread support for the Senate run against Rubio, although she ll still have to win a Democratic primary to face him.
Florida is an uphill climb for Democrats after former President Donald Trump carried the state twice, and Republicans won the last two Senate races in 2016 and 2018. But Democrats are hopeful that Demings, a rising star in the party who was considered a potential vice presidential pick, will put the massive state in play.
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