The woman who wants to unseat U.S. Senator Rick Scott made a sweep through Southwest Florida on Monday and said that Florida is not out of reach for Democrats.
Debbie Muscarel-Powell lost her seat in Congress in 2020 when voters in her south Florida district ousted her in favor of Republican Carlos Giménez, but she quickly found a new gig as a senior advisor.
Rarely have a seen a piece of supposed journalism as puffy as the story that NBC News put together on one-term Florida congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell joining the gun control group Giffords as a senior policy analyst. Ordinarily a one-termer becoming a D.C. lobbyist wouldn’t draw the attention of NBC News, but they give the former representative the star treatment, and in the process they absolutely bury the lede.
Yes, Mucarsel-Powell has a compelling personal story, having lost her father in a shooting in Ecquador in 1996. Mucarsel-Powell says that personal tragedy is what turned her into an advocate for more restrictive gun control laws.