Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the Democratic front-runner for the Florida Senate seat, is homing in on incumbent Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) wobbly abortion stance with an eye toward gaining more voters.
In an advertisement released in Spanish on Monday, Mucarsel-Powell focused on Scott’s stance, saying he is in favor of banning abortions.
“My mother brought me here from Ecuador for freedom, and it’s freedom that Rick Scott wants to take away,” Mucarsel-Powell said in the ad.
Twenty-seven percent of Florida’s voters are Latino, coming from Cuba and South American countries. As a whole, Latino voters tend to be more religious, but 68% said they are opposed to abortion bans, according to an Axios-Ipsos poll.
Scott’s position on abortion has softened in recent years as the procedure has become a lightning rod following the Supreme Court’s decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
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