Posted on 05/06/2015 7:03:39 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis will announce Wednesday that he's running for the Senate seat Marco Rubio is giving up to seek the GOP presidential nomination.
Two advisers close to DeSantis confirmed his plans to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made public yet.
DeSantis, a favorite among conservative political groups, was elected in 2012 and overwhelmingly re-elected last year. He is a former member of the Navy Judge Advocate General 's Corps who was deployed to Iraq in 2007. He will enter the race by releasing a statement, the advisers said.
"As a candidate for Senate, I look forward to offering reforms based on limited government principles that will make our country stronger and more prosperous. I see a bright future for Florida and for America and my campaign will be about the ideas and principles that will help us achieve a more perfect union," DeSantis said in a copy of the statement provided to AP.
DeSantis is the first major Republican to announce plans to run for Rubio's seat. He will begin the campaign with more than $1 million that he'll transfer from a House campaign account.
He is outspoken on issues like federal spending, national security, taxes and the need for congressional term limits.
"America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating the middle class squeeze and promoting economic opportunity, confronting the significant national security challenges threatening the safety of our people, and reforming the culture of Washington, DC," DeSantis said in the statement.
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Between Sweet Lindsey's career and the track record of military lawyers fouling up war making efforts, color me skeptical. Can he rise above these handicaps?
It’s too bad Debbie Blabbermouth Shultz has already said she won’t run for this seat then we could DiSantis and DiDingDong!
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I was hoping Jeff Atwater would run, but maybe he’s keeping his powder dry for the governorship.
It will be interesting to see whom the RATs put up for the senate seat. Maybe that political piñata Alex Sink......
I don’t know this guy. What’s the verdict?
He’s 36 years old. Another fresh, young face for the GOP.
“It will be interesting to see whom the RATs put up for the senate seat. Maybe that political piñata Alex Sink......”
Sink has used up all her chances in FL.
Patrick Murphy is running, and the Dems have made it pretty clear he’s their choice, no one else need apply. Alan Grayson makes noise about it, though.
He seems pretty doggone Conservative.
Florida media considers him the ‘conservative, tea-party’ type candidate. FWIW.
I don’t know much about him but I’m always impressed when I see him on TV—he sounds like a grown up who knows what he is talking about....
Murphy is weak. He couldn’t have been elected to the House without the corruption of the supervisor of elections of, what county was it, St. Lucie?
Atwater said straight out he didn’t want to go to DC.
I know. Still, I wish he would run.
Yeah. DeSantis should be an excellent substitute, though.
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