Stephanie Murphy puts blame for statewide Democratic losses on misguided airwave campaign
Florida Democrats suffered a bruising Midterm Election even as the party beat expectations nationwide. But U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy isn’t ready to call Florida a red state. Rather, she puts underperformance by the blue team in 2022 squarely on the shoulders of statewide candidates.
“How do you spend $100 million in this state and then have nothing to show for it?” she said. “I think that’s political malpractice.”
The remarks, made at Tiger Bay of Central Florida, put the burden of the losses on former U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, who lost to Gov. Ron DeSantis in a 19-point landslide, and U.S. Rep. Val Demings, who fell short in a challenge of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio by nearly as much.
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