Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Stanley Campbell spoke at the Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church in St. Petersburg on Aug. 13, 2024. (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)
Tech entrepreneur and former Naval pilot Stanley Campbell campaigned in South St. Petersburg on Tuesday night, telling a group of Baptist ministers that he intends to stun the Florida political world next week and capture the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.
“I am a real solid candidate. I’m going to win the nomination, and I’m going to beat Rick Scott like he stole something,” Campbell said while speaking at the Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church.
The Miami native and Florida A&M graduate is the decided underdog in the Aug. 20 Democratic Party primary to former South Florida U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who has out-fundraised him and received the lion’s share of endorsements in Florida and nationally as the party attempts to take down Scott in November.
“The Democratic Party has picked their choice,” he said, referring to Mucarsel-Powell. “They picked her nine months before I got into the race. They don’t call her a candidate; they call her the nominee. That means they’ve forgotten all the democratic principles that we want to blame other people for ignoring.