Trump Pressures Rick Scott To Run For Senate Leader

Playbook reports:

In a private meeting at Mar-a-Lago a few days ago, Donald Trump made a personal pitch to Senate Republican campaign chief Rick Scott. “You should run for Senate majority leader,” he told the NRSC chair. It wasn’t the first time, either: Trump has repeatedly told Scott he’d be great at the job and should challenge Mitch McConnell.

The Florida governor-turned-senator is navigating some treacherous terrain — and we’re not talking about the Senate landscape.

He’s trying to balance working with the GOP’s two most powerful figures in McConnell and Trump, who also happen to despise each other. Scott, 69, made waves — and infuriated some McConnell allies — when he bucked the GOP leader’s decision not to lay out a policy agenda for 2022 and instead released his own.

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Trump is trying to use Rick Scott as a lever against Mitch McConnell https://t.co/ZLhKFrwsEV

— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) February 25, 2022