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On the heels of new polling numbers showing her closer than ever to overtaking Republican incumbent Marco Rubio in the race for U.S. Senate, Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings plans to put the pedal to the metal — literally and figuratively — to close the distance before Election Day. Demings, who served as Orlando’s first female Police Chief, said she will apply an outreach policy she established in that role and meet with many different compositions of communities throughout Florida. That, she argued, is something her opponent is uneasy doing.