{"id":256545,"date":"2022-10-18T23:33:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=256545"},"modified":"2022-10-19T00:11:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T00:11:21","slug":"val-demings-is-just-what-lazy-anti-abortion-marco-rubio-deserves-a-fearless-challenger-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/val-demings-is-just-what-lazy-anti-abortion-marco-rubio-deserves-a-fearless-challenger-opinion","title":{"rendered":"Val Demings is just what lazy, anti-abortion Marco Rubio deserves: a fearless challenger | Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s running a lazy campaign. She&#8217;s fearless and hard-working. And &#8212; if Florida women angry at the erosion of abortion rights Roe v. Wade gave us vote like their lives depend on this midterm election &#8212; he&#8217;ll be sweating every last vote. Perhaps, for the first time, in his maverick political career. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, master of the gift of gab, is so sure that Florida voters will re-elect him over a Democratic Black woman that he hasn&#8217;t taken his challenger, U.S. Rep. Val Demings, as seriously as he should. His confidence stems from the now time and election-tested religious and conservative North-South alliance that makes nationalist whites and Cuban-American Republicans like Rubio political bedfellows. No such strong coalition exists among Democrats, who are estranged in their strongholds in Central and South Florida and in pockets of red Florida. Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;rainbow&#8221; in Florida was as fleeting as the real spectacle in the sky. But if this U.S. Senate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s running a lazy campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}