Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s Momentum Continues To Surge

Floridians continue to rally behind Debbie Mucarsel-Powell as the fighter for Florida who will defeat Rick Scott and his toxic agenda and protect Floridians' freedoms.

[Watch] WFTV:  Race for the Senate heats up in Florida

• Democratic candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell was greeting voters in Orlando Sunday as she hits the campaign trail a few weeks before the general election.

• “We are putting in the work. We have to reach the voters where they are,” said Mucarsel-Powell.

• It’s a neck-and-neck race – a recent poll released by Emerson College shows Rick Scott leading by one percentage point – getting 46% percent of likely voters, against 45-percent to Mucarsel-Powell.

NPR: Exclusive: Florida U.S. Senate challenger launches WhatsApp channel to reach voters

• Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the former U.S. House Democrat now challenging Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott for the Senate, has launched a new campaign on WhatsApp to reach voters and attack a sea of disinformation.

• “It's particularly created to target Latino voters across the state to provide them with accurate, factual information coming straight from the source,” Mucarsel-Powell, the sole Latina candidate running for U.S. Senate this year, told NPR.

• Mucarsel-Powell argues WhatsApp will let her directly reach Florida’s Hispanic community, often a target of disinformation.

• Mucarsel-Powell is Democrats’ first Spanish-speaking candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida.

• And the WhatsApp effort is part of an overall campaign strategy to reach Latino voters who sat out previous elections, which includes dozens of English and Spanish language campaign events so far as well as ads in both languages.

The Hill: Florida Senate race is dead heat: Poll

• Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) are locked in a dead heat in Florida’s Senate race, according to polling released Friday by The Hill and Emerson College Polling.

• Among independent voters, 47 percent said they back Mucarsel-Powell and 34 percent broke for Scott, while 19 percent said they are undecided.

• Mucarsel-Powell leads Scott by 5 points among women voters.

• The poll also found Mucarsel-Powell polling ahead of Scott with the state’s Hispanic vote by 6 points.

New York Magazine: Democrat Could Make Rick Scott Spend It All in Florida’s Senate Race

• While Scott continues to plunder his children’s inheritance, polls continue to show this race as closer than expected and perhaps getting closer.

• The incumbent leads in the RealClearPolitics averages by 4.3 percent, but each new poll shows Mucarsel-Powell gaining; most recently a September survey from Emerson showed the race statistically tied, as The Hill reported.

• In 2022 [Scott] released (and then subsequently toned down slightly) a truly wild “11-Point Plan to Save America” that is to Florida Democrats what Project 2025 has become to Democrats nationally.

• It included a total sunsetting of federal programs every five years (he later remembered the state he represents and exempted Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. Navy from this death sentence), and minimum income taxes on working poor people whose tax liability is eliminated by tax credits.

• Scott naturally opposes Amendment 4] which will likely win a majority of the vote in November and may top the 60 percent supermajority required for enactment. Mucarsel-Powell is criticizing Scott constantly for being on the wrong side of this issue.

• In another parallel to the national campaign, the Democrat is also pounding Scott for his vote against a bipartisan border deal and for having nothing constructive to offer on immigration policy (Mucarsel-Powell is herself an immigrant from Ecuador).

• Mucarsel-Powell was smart to get out in front of one issue by harshly attacking Venezuela’s Maduro regime and its recent efforts to reverse an apparent election defeat.

• The possibility that Scott could actually lose this race is manna from heaven for Democrats not just in Florida, but nationally.

West Orlando News: Democrats Fire Up Women Voters in Orlando, Reject Republicans' Agenda

• U.S. Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, and State Representative LaVon Bracy Davis joined other Florida leaders to fire up voters during a Women for Harris-Walz rally in Orlando.

• They warned of the threat a second Donald Trump term would pose to women and highlighted Democrats’ efforts to protect our freedoms in Florida and beyond.

• “For far too long, Floridians have suffered from the consequences of Rick Scott and Donald Trump’s extreme policies and many failures,” said U.S. Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. “Today, thanks to MAGA Republicans like Trump and Scott, an extreme abortion ban is jeopardizing the lives of women, and Florida is becoming unaffordable for our families.”