How Rep. Val Demings could help Joe Biden 'meet the moment' as his vice presidential pick.
But acknowledging that there are bad stories out there, and successfully defending your record in a bare-knuckle fight for the White House, are two different things.
As a young police officer, Demings met Jerry Demings, and the two were married in 1988. They have three children. Jerry Demings also served as chief of police in Orlando from 1998-2002, retiring five years before his wife was named chief. Today, Jerry Demings is the mayor of Orange County, Florida, and one half of a power couple in the state’s political scene.
“She had access to opportunities that she wants everyone to have, like equal access to health and mental health care, education and economic opportunities,” said the spokeswoman, Kate Coyne McCoy. On issues ranging from foreign policy, veterans affairs and big business regulation, to trade, technology and health care, Demings’ positions amount to little more than a few votes in the House and a few bills she co-sponsored.
In the last 20 years, no presidential nominee of either party has won the White House without winning Florida’s 29 electoral votes. But in those same 20 years, no one has won Florida by more than 3 percentage points, making every last vote a nominee secures in the Sunshine State both hard won and precious.
Hanging over all these deliberations is the knowledge that Trump won Florida in 2016 by 1.2 percentage points, just over 100,000 votes. In 2012, Obama won the state by less than 1 point. McManus also warned against looking at Florida through a binary Black and White lens, or even a Black, White and Hispanic lens.
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