Former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel Powell’s (D-Fla.) Senate campaign said on Wednesday it raised over $1 million in the 48 hours after a poll from The Hill and Emerson College showed her tied with incumbent Sen. Rick Scott (R).
Mucarsel Powell’s campaign also said she brought in 13,000 first-time donors during the same period.
“This surge in grassroots support confirms what we have been seeing across the state — Floridians are fed up with Rick Scott’s extremism and are eager for the freedom and economic opportunities that Debbie Mucarsel-Powell champions,” Mucarsel Powell’s campaign manager Ben Waldon said in a statement.
The haul comes after polls show tightening races at the Senate and presidential levels in Florida. On Monday, a Morning Consult survey of the presidential race in Florida showed Vice President Kamala Harris trailing former President Trump by only two points.
However, on the Senate side, most other polls show Mucarsel Powell trailing Scott by a slightly larger margin. The same Morning Consult poll showed the former congresswoman trailing the incumbent senator by five points. The Hill’s Decision Desk HQ polling average shows Scott leading Mucarsel Powell by just under three points.
Scott, who has served in the Senate since 2019 and before that was governor, has a history of eking out statewide wins in the Sunshine State. Scott won his 2018 Senate race by less than a point and his two gubernatorial victories by less than 2 points.
In a Tuesday interview with NewsNation — which along with The Hill, is owned by Nexstar Media — Scott predicted he and Trump would do “really well” in Florida and argued voters are “fed up” with the Biden-Harris administration.
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