Emboldened by poll, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell says she can pick up Rick Scott's seat

Emboldened by poll, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell says she can pick up Rick Scott's seat

Though many have cast doubt on a Florida Atlantic University/Mainstreet Research poll of Florida’s U.S. Senate race, Rick Scott’s Democratic challenger is touting the survey as a sign that she can win.

“Rick Scott is the most vulnerable Republican that we have and the most unpopular Republican in the state of Florida right now. Polling is showing that we are statistically tied at this point, but this man is someone that lies to Floridians, is trying to lie his record away,” asserted Debbie Mucarsel-Powell Friday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word.”

Noting that Scott is vowing to block judicial nominees, the former member of Congress called the Senator “the poster child of extremism and one of the mos...

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