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Jun 9, 2021 · Democratic Rep. Val Demings on Wednesday officially announced she’s running for US Senate in 2022 as the party looks to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Marco Rubio in a pivotal race.
In 2016, Chief Demings was elected by the voters of Florida’s 10th District to serve in Congress. After Donald Trump’s first impeachment in 2019, Demings was appointed impeachment manager for the Senate trial – one of the first women and first Black Americans to ever serve in that role, and the only non-lawyer on the team.
Jul 26, 2020 · Val Demings has already been the latter. In 1972, the future Florida congresswoman was a young Black girl struggling to make friends at a predominantly white Jacksonville high school. She and her ...
Demings was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 10th congressional district in the 2012 elections. She faced freshman Republican Daniel Webster in a district that had been made slightly more Republican than its predecessor in 2010. Demings narrowly lost, taking 48% of the vote to Webster's 51%.
Oct 19, 2022 · Rubio, who hopes to secure a third term in the Senate, cast Demings as having achieved little since she was first elected to the House in 2016. “The congresswoman likes to talk about helping people.
Jun 9, 2021 · By Donna M. Owens ·Updated June 9, 2021. Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) has officially entered the race for the U.S. Senate in 2022. The Congresswoman is seeking to become the first Black person and ...
Oct 28, 2021 · When Demings was elected in 2018, he was the first Democrat elected Mayor of Orange County in 18 years. His election coincided with Democrats flipping control of the County Commission for the ...
