challenge of taking on desantis in the fall. and the florida senate race now has its final match-up. val demings is facing off against marco rubio. a race the gop believe has it can win easily. but also where democrats have been widely outspending republicans and think that they have a chance to flip the state blue. also big night in new york, two powerful democrats capping off a highly competitive race. cnn projects jerry nadler will unseat carolyn maloney. redistricts forced them into the same districts with the nastier primary races of the year. and pat ryan beating the republican in a swing district. and so let s bring in cnn political analyst jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for t the daily beast. so much to talk about. so jackie, in florida democrat charlie crist won his primary and will face off with governor desantis in november. crist is a former governor of course and former republican. is his past experience and name recognition enough to knock off the
promising to be a consensus builder, be a familiar face. and really bring civility back to politics at a time when the rhetoric has gotten so divisive here. but notably the joe biden playbook did not work in florida. trump won here in 2016 and then in 2020 by an even larger far begin. and crist himself hasn t won in 2006. he ran as an independent as lost. and he was the democratic nominee in 2014 and came up short. and now he just has 11 weeks to put up a fight against ron desantis and $132 million that will be used to run a whole bunch of ads. so he will have to work closely i think with the senate nominee va val demings who has brought a
challenge of taking on desantis in the fall. and the florida senate race now has its final match-up. val demings is facing off against marco rubio. a race the gop believe has it can win easily. but also where democrats have been widely outspending republicans and think that they have a chance to flip the state blue. also big night in new york, two powerful democrats capping off a highly competitive race. cnn projects jerry nadler will unseat carolyn maloney. redistricts forced them into the same districts with the nastier primary races of the year. and pat ryan beating the republican in a swing district. and so let s bring in cnn political analyst jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for t the daily beast. so much to talk about. so jackie, in florida