TALLAHASSEE – A Democrat who dropped two congressional races in one of Florida’s most conservative districts declared Monday he will search for the nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Scott.
Phil Ehr, a retired Navy commander who still left the Republican Bash in 2017, claimed in a information release that Scott and the Republican Social gathering have come to be as well extraordinary.
“Scott has actively participated in Donald Trump’s war on the real truth, and just like Ron DeSantis, Matt Gaetz, and other MAGA diehards, he’s aspect of the Axis of Lies that is threatening to tear America aside at the seams,” Ehr explained.
Ehr has twice experimented with to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz in the district that features Pensacola and a lot of the state’s Panhandle. He dropped the 2018 Democratic primary by much more than 20 details. In 2020, he earned the nomination unopposed then lost to Gaetz by far more than 30 factors.
Scott is in search of his second term in the Senate immediately after serving two phrases as governor.
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