Boynton Beach mayor running for U.S. Senate seat held by Marco Rubio
BOYNTON BEACH — Steven Grant’s term as Boynton Beach mayor ends in March 2022, but he doesn’t plan on leaving the political arena.
Next up for Grant? A run for the U.S. Senate seat held by incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.
Grant, 38, term-limited as mayor after six years in office, launches his longshot bid as an independent. He filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Committee on March 2.
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“We only get one opportunity and I want to do the most I can, when I can, because tomorrow is not promised,” Grant said of moving from city government into the big pond of national politics. “I spoke to my wife about this and we’re doing what we can to make the world a better place for our daughter and everyone else.”
Grant will serve out his second term as mayor, which ends in March 2022.
“That gives me a good eight months to campaign the state,” said Grant, referring to the Nov. 8, 2022 national elections.
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Since moving to Florida from Maryland in 2008, Grant has registered as a Democrat and and a Republican. He voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in the 2016 Florida Republican primary before choosing not to support either Trump or Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.
In November, Grant voted for Joe Biden, but said Democrats are following Trump’s lead and spending the U.S. into financial oblivion. He criticized the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill expected to be approved this week, saying that Democrats “just keep on spending money that they don’t have the ability to pay for” while also arguing the aid package picks “winners and losers” in the business community.
Those concerns moved him to run for the Senate seat with no party affiliation.
“I want to be known as an American doing his job to make this country the best it can be,” Grant said.
Grant said he will campaign on term limits because the American public is hungering for “more diversity and more ideas in Congress.” He promises to stump around the state using only public transportation.
Several other candidates have also filed their intentions to run against Rubio in 2022. The challengers all have little state-wide name recognition, a situation that also confronts, but does not deter, Grant.
“People aren’t happy,” he said. “So we’ll see what happens.
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