The Senate Democrats’ official campaign arm is pulling its remaining ad dollars from the Florida Senate race, a decision it said was not linked to Republican Marco Rubio’s debate showing against challenger Patrick Murphy Monday night.
The Miami Herald has more:
The decision was made despite surveys that show a competitive race. Rubio holds a 4.2 percentage point advantage in the RealClearPolitics average of polls, but just a two-point lead a new Quinnipiac survey released Tuesday. The race is considered a toss-up by many election prognosticators.
But the incumbent provided a stout defense of his job during a one-on-one forum with Murphy to kick off this week. If swing voters in Florida fixate on Rubio’s complicated support of Donald Trump, he still left plenty of rhetoric to pick apart, including his continued statement, “I stand by everything I ever said in the Republican primary.” (That includes calling Trump a “con artist” and untrustworthy with the country’s nuclear codes.) He assertively attacked Murphy’s legislative record, however, and used his agile debate skill to make the case that he’s the more effective lawmaker for Floridians.
Read more of the Herald’s coverage here.
