Democratic Senate campaign chief ‘encouraged’ by races in Florida, Texas

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Gary Peters (D-Mich.) said Tuesday that he was “encouraged” by the party’s Senate campaigns in Texas and Florida.

Peters called Texas Senate candidate Rep. Colin Allred (D) a “dynamic individual who is getting great traction in his campaign.”

“We’re already seeing in the polling data a very close race,” he continued. “Same thing happening in Florida.”

Peters’s remarks came as former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) formally clinched her party’s Senate nomination in Florida.

“Rick Scott has never won an election by very much to begin with, it’s always a tight race,” Peters said, referring to the incumbent Republican senator. “So we would expect a tight race again.”

While Democratic statewide victories in Florida and Texas would be an uphill prospect for Democrats, polling suggests that the Senate races there are tightening.