MIAMI – Former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat, seeks to unseat Republican Florida U.S. Sen. Rick Scott — and to become the first Latina from Florida to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Their divisive campaigns had them referring to each other as extremists. Scott, a two-term Florida governor, didn’t hold back. His campaign ads even accused Mucarsel-Powell, an advocate of fiscal conservatism, of supporting socialism. He was in Tallahassee Tuesday morning.
“Today is a big day! Go vote! This is your future! 1hat is on the ballot today is freedom,” Scott told a group of supporters. “Every poll in the general election said I would lose: Every poll in the 18 election said I would lose! So don’t rely on the polls and make your voices heard.”
Scott, 71, a climate change denier, ran for a second term in the U.S. Senate as an ally of former President Donald Trump. The former Florida governor from 2011 to 2019 voted to decertify the 2020 presidential election results in Pennsylvania and released the controversial “Plan to Rescue America” in 2022.
Mucarsel-Powell, 53, lost her former House seat to former Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez in 2020. She supports the U.S. embargo on Cuba, investments in climate-resilient infrastructure, and abortion rights up to viability. She was meeting voters on Tuesday afternoon in Doral.
Scott plans to be at a watch party at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa, 5001 Coconut Road, in Bonita Springs; and Mucarsel-Powell at the JW Marriott Miami, at 1109 Brickell Ave., in Miami.
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