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Former Democratic representative for Florida’s 10th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Demings votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Demings’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Demings votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Demings’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+25.0% | 100.0% | +1.6 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Demings vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 23, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (225-201) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| Dec. 15, 2022 | Providing collective bargaining rights for Veterans Health Administration health care workers (219-201) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Dec. 15, 2022 | Allowing Puerto Rico to hold a referendum on whether to become a U.S. state, an independent country or a sovereign government (233-191) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing money for law enforcement training in de-escalation tactics and in responding to mental and behavior health crises (264-162) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.2% | +6.8 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Updating regulations to address conflicts of interest in federal acquisitions (219-205) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Dec. 8, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (258-169) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Dec. 6, 2022 | Making it easier for noncitizen veterans to get lawful permanent resident status (220-208) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring the Bureau of Prisons to provide incarcerated women with certain pregnancy-related care and limiting the use of solitary confinement for pregnant women (324-90) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Establishing grants for reentry programs for previously incarcerated people (259-167) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| Nov. 30, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (290-137) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.3% | +9.7 |
| Nov. 16, 2022 | Prohibiting the enforcement of nondisclosure agreements and nondisparagement clauses agreed to before a sexual assault or harassment dispute arises (315-109) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Sept. 30, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (230-201) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.4% | +2.6 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Modifying merger filing fees and requiring disclosure of foreign merger subsidies (242-184) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 83.0% | +17.0 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Expanding access to mental and substance use health services (220-205) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 22, 2022 | Providing money for law enforcement agencies to investigate unsolved homicides and nonfatal shootings (250-178) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| Sept. 22, 2022 | Providing money for anti-violence programs (220-207) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 22, 2022 | Providing money for local governments to train mental health professionals and send them instead of law enforcement officers to respond to emergencies involving people with behavioral health needs (223-206) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 22, 2022 | Authorizing grants for law enforcement agencies with fewer than 125 officers (360-64) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.6% | +8.4 |
| Sept. 21, 2022 | Revising the process of casting and counting electoral votes for presidential elections (229-203) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Sept. 21, 2022 | Allowing federal student loan borrowers to separate consolidated loans (232-193) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Sept. 15, 2022 | Establishing and expanding whistleblower protections for federal employees (221-203) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 15, 2022 | Establishing greater congressional oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau and prohibiting the removal of the bureau director without cause (220-208) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 15, 2022 | Prohibiting certain federal positions from losing civil-service status (225-204) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 12, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (220-207) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 29, 2022 | Revising restrictions on the possession and exhibition of big cats (278-134) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| July 29, 2022 | Establishing wildfire preparedness and drought resiliency programs (218-199) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 29, 2022 | Prohibiting the sale, manufacture, transfer and possession of certain semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity magazines (217-213) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 28, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (243-187) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| July 27, 2022 | Extending certain Medicare telehealth flexibilities after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (416-12) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| July 27, 2022 | Establishing programs to support heart-disease research and awareness among the South Asian American population (237-192) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| July 27, 2022 | Restoring full pension benefits terminated by Delphi Corporation's bankruptcy in 2009 (254-175) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.5% | +5.5 |
| July 21, 2022 | Protecting the right to access and use contraceptives (228-195) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| July 20, 2022 | Authorizing appropriations to several federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023 (220-207) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 19, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state (267-157) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| July 15, 2022 | Prohibiting restrictions on access to out-of-state abortion services (223-205) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 15, 2022 | Prohibiting restrictions on access to abortion services (219-210) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 14, 2022 | Authorizing Department of Defense appropriations for fiscal year 2023 (329-101) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 77.2% | +22.8 |
| July 13, 2022 | Establishing the Active Shooter Alert Communications Network (260-169) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
| June 24, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (234-193) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| June 23, 2022 | Improving the collection of data related to sexual orientation and gender identity (220-201) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2022 | Establishing and funding agency for innovations in health care (336-85) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| June 22, 2022 | Reauthorizing mental health and substance use disorder programs (402-20) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| June 16, 2022 | Developing strategies to lower food and fuel costs (221-204) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| June 15, 2022 | Expanding access to credit, mortgage and banking services (215-207) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 14, 2022 | Providing funding for the conservation of fish and wildlife (231-190) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| June 9, 2022 | Allowing federal courts to temporarily prohibit individuals from purchasing and possessing firearms (224-202) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| June 8, 2022 | Changing federal firearms laws, including prohibiting sales of certain weapons to people under 21 years old (223-204) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| May 18, 2022 | Expanding the availability of information on domestic terrorism (222-203) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| May 17, 2022 | Expanding employment and training programs (220-196) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| May 13, 2022 | Reauthorizing block grants for antipoverty activities (246-169) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.2% | +3.8 |
| May 12, 2022 | Making Transportation Security Administration employees part of the standard federal personnel management system (220-201) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| May 11, 2022 | Making it easier for federally employed firefighters to get workers' compensation (288-131) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 31, 2022 | Capping out-of-pocket insulin costs (232-193) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 18, 2022 | Prohibiting discrimination based on a person's hair texture or style (235-189) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 17, 2022 | Prohibiting certain forced arbitration clauses (222-209) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 9, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (260-171) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| March 3, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (256-174) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
| Feb. 9, 2022 | Imposing visa restrictions on foreign people found responsible for human rights violations related to someone's sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics (227-206) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (342-92) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| Feb. 7, 2022 | Ending forced arbitration for sexual assault and sexual harrassment cases (335-97) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
| Feb. 4, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (222-210) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Strengthening the Voting Rights Act, campaign finance regulations and election administration rules (220-203) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 12, 2022 | Expanding GI Bill eligibility for National Guard and Reserve members (287-135) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.8% | +4.2 |
| Dec. 15, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (221-209) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Creating a State Department position to monitor and combat Islamophobia around the world (219-212) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Dec. 9, 2021 | Limiting the power of the executive branch and increasing disclosure requirements for presidential and vice presidential candidates (220-208) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (221-212) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Nov. 19, 2021 | Providing money to expand social safety programs, fight climate change and lower health care costs (220-213) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Nov. 5, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (228-206) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.8% | +12.2 |
| Nov. 4, 2021 | Protecting older job applicants from discrimination in the hiring process (224-200) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Oct. 26, 2021 | Reauthorizing and expanding funding for preventing domestic violence (228-200) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Oct. 22, 2021 | Expanding workplace requirements for breastfeeding accommodations (276-149) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (254-175) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.4% | +2.6 |
| Sept. 29, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (219-212) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 24, 2021 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (218-211) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 21, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (220-211) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Aug. 24, 2021 | Strengthening the Voting Rights Act (219-212) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Aug. 24, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (220-212) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (416-11) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| July 28, 2021 | Making appropriations for the State Department, foreign operations and related programs (217-212) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.9% | +6.1 |
| July 22, 2021 | Increasing the number of and expediting the process for visas available to Afghans who worked on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan (407-16) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| July 21, 2021 | Requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to implement regulations around certain chemicals (241-183) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| July 20, 2021 | Allowing the Federal Trade Commission to recover money for victims of illegal business practices (221-205) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| July 1, 2021 | Providing money for transportation and water infrastructure (221-201) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 25, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (229-191) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| June 24, 2021 | Providing contraceptives to veterans without co-pays (245-181) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| June 24, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (219-210) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 24, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (218-208) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 23, 2021 | Protecting older employees from workplace discrimination (247-178) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| June 17, 2021 | Repealing the 2002 authorization of military force against Iraq (268-161) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.7% | +5.3 |
| May 20, 2021 | Providing money for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack (213-212) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.7% | +8.3 |
| May 19, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (252-175) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| May 18, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (364-62) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| May 14, 2021 | Protecting pregnant employees from workplace discrimination (315-101) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| May 13, 2021 | Providing consumers with debt-related protections (215-207) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 22, 2021 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21, 2021 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21, 2021 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 16, 2021 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| April 15, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (217-210) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 18, 2021 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| March 18, 2021 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 17, 2021 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 11, 2021 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11, 2021 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 9, 2021 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3, 2021 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| March 3, 2021 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 26, 2021 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Val Demings's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.0% | +11.0 |
| Average | 100.0% | 98.4% | +1.6 | |||
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