LAKELAND, Fla.—Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) easily brushed aside three party rivals in her Aug. 23 Democratic primary and has raised more than $47 million in her campaign to unseat Florida’s two-term Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
The three-term congressional representative and former Orlando Police Chief has a $10 million fundraising advantage over Rubio and, with poll numbers that show an ever-tightening race, including one where she is actually leading, some analysts have Demings tabbed as a November upset pick.
To add injury to incumbent insult, the day after she cruised to her easy primary win, Demings joined four other Democratic U.S. Senate candidates running for seats now held by Republicans in forming a joint “Flippable Five Fund.”…