JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is running as the incumbent for his senate seat, a seat he’s held since 2011. On Monday, Rubio spoke at a ‘Getting Things Done’ rally at Mambos Cuban Café on Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville.
Rubio has ties to Jacksonville. His brother lives here. In addition, Northeast Florida is an important region for the Republican Party who has vowed to get voters back after losing Duval County to the Democrats for the presidential campaign two years ago.
While campaigning, Rubio said during civilization there was a time when all people did not have rights but now he says the basic rights of humanity will be protected and he vows to not let those rights be taken away.
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Rubio said, “What people want is not complicated. Not to be judged for where they came from. They want the opportunity to pursue their dreams, that their kids have a chance to do what they could not do -- that has defined my life.”
Among people at the Jacksonville rally, Duval GOP Chairman Dean Black, Mayor Lenny Curry and candidate for Jacksonville Sheriff, T.K. Waters.
In South Dade county, Democratic candidate Val Demings spent the last day before the election talking to small business owners.
Demings has said, “To get out and vote everything that we care about and represent as a nation is at stake. Our democracy is at stake, and it is the foundation on which we have the ability to own a home, the ability to go to college, the ability to have a good job, jobs of the future, the ability to address climate change, the ability to protect Social Security and Medicare for our seniors. Everything that we care about is at stake. This election is the most critical of our lifetime. Get out and exercise your right to vote that vote, that people of all races sacrifice.”
Demings was in Jacksonville on Friday. She will spend election night Tuesday in Orlando. Rubio will be in Miami.
Spending this last day before Election Day with South Dade’s small businesses. It’s your hopes and dreams that I will take with me to the U.S. Senate. pic.twitter.com/hLFvFFOvDi
— Val Demings (@valdemings) November 7, 2022