Oh my. Representative Alan Grayson met with Senator Jon Tester, head of the DSCC last Wednesday and said he is running for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat and no one is going to convince him otherwise. Word on the hill is that Grayson pitched a fit at the DSCC when the group all but told him that their pick to run for Rubio’s Senate seat was Rep. Patrick Murphy.
Grayson also said there was no rush to announce:Elizabeth Warren didn’t announce her race until mid-September the year before the election. We’re still in March. What’s the rush? I think most voters would appreciate the respite from politics. And I’m not in a position where I have to beg millionaires and billionaires to finance my campaign. We have the largest Democratic donor base in the House, 116,000 individual contributors. That will be my strength whenever I may announce – or if I announce.
Earlier in March, Patrick Murphy officially threw his hat in the ring and has already been picking up some endorsements. Quite frankly it is said establishment Democrats prefer him over Grayson.
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But Grayson is not letting that bother him because he thinks he has it all figured out. He said:
They wanted a sense of how the Florida race looks. They wanted a sense of what I bring to the table, if I decide to run. I explained to them that the crucial element for a Democratic statewide campaign is getting out the Democratic vote. The only Democratic candidate who has been able to do that in the past six years in Barack Obama, who won twice statewide because he ran a populist, exciting campaign that motivated our voters to vote. I told them I’m going to run a Barack Obama type campaign if I run for Senate.
