Florida Dem Senate rivals rush to tie each other to Trump

Reps. Alan Grayson and Patrick Murphy on Thursday accused each other of links with Donald Trump as the two face off during in the Democratic Senate primary in Florida.

Murphy drew first blood by suggesting Grayson shares the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s misogyny, according to The Tampa Bay Times.

{mosads}“Donald Trump and Alan Grayson have more in common than one may think — and it’s nothing the supposedly progressive Grayson would be proud of,” Murphy said in a statement. “Although Grayson has embraced the title of ‘Trump of the left,’ when it comes to women, both have a record of outright disrespect.”

Murphy’s release listed several examples of Grayson’s alleged misdeeds toward women, including calling a lobbyist a “K Street whore.”

He also charged that Grayson helped a company “discriminate against a pregnant worker, waging a 5-year legal battle where he aggressively subpoenaed records from the woman’s gynecologist, her credit card records, day care records of her daughter and personal photographs.”

Grayson responded by implying that the Murphy family’s construction business has profited from building Trump properties in Florida.

“No other politician in Florida — Democrat or Republican — has gained more financially than Patrick Murphy and his family from doing business with Donald Trump,” he said in a statement. “Patrick’s construction company still brags about its work to deliver Trump Royale and Trump Hollywood.

“Thanks in part to those deals, Patrick sits on millions of dollars in company stock that his daddy gave him, and Donald has parlayed those and other real estate deals into a Republican presidential nomination. So it’s fitting that these business partners are teaming up once again to push destructive conservative policies in Washington. Democrats know that none of us can afford more of the Trump-Murphy partnership.”

Murphy and Grayson are battling over who will become the Democratic candidate for a Senate seat vacated by former GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio.

Grayson led Murphy by 11 points in March, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released that month. Forty-five percent of likely Senate Democratic primary voters in Florida had no preference.