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“Currently, Milton is expected to make landfall as a major hurricane on Florida’s Gulf coast. Milton’s anticipated strong winds, torrential rains, and devastating storm surge are likely to wreak havoc across much of Florida. “Although our state is familiar with the dangers posed by hurricanes, this major hurricane approaches toward Florida’s Gulf coast that recently endured severe impacts from major …

NBC News reports: Republican Sen. Rick Scott is set to place roughly $10 million in new TV ads in the homestretch of a Florida Senate race that he is widely seen as leading but that Democrats have continued to make noise in. The Scott TV buy, first shared with NBC News, will focus mostly on the Tampa, Orlando and Miami …

Florida Politics reports: Florida’s junior Senator wants to lead the Republican Caucus if he’s re-elected next month. And he also vows to try to defund the United Nations (U.N.) if that comes to pass. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott promised to “force a vote to halt ALL funding to the UN — which gives a global stage to the world’s worst …

Florida Politics reports: A Florida-based Republican pollster finds Republican Donald Trump leading Democrat Kamala Harris by just 2 percentage points. Additionally, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott holds less than a 1-point edge on Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. The poll finds Trump winning just under 47% of likely voters in his home state, while nearly 45% intend to vote for Harris. Scott, a …

Florida Politics reports: Though the concept of climate change has been removed from state law in recent months, Florida’s former Governor is saying he agrees with mainstream scientists on the issue. “The climate is clearly changing,” U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said on CNN, addressing the destruction left by Hurricane Helene. “We know things are changing. We’ve got to figure out, …

The Hill reports: The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), a big-dollar fundraising group affiliated with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), isn’t helping two of McConnell’s biggest critics in the Senate GOP conference — Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rick Scott (Fla.). This has prompted grumbling from conservatives who say McConnell has too much power over Senate Republican fundraising and point …

Bloomberg News reports: Senate Democrats announced Thursday they are spending millions to defeat Ted Cruz in Texas and Rick Scott in Florida, where polls have shown the incumbents surprisingly vulnerable. “Senate Democrats are expanding the map and going on offense,” said Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Senator Gary Peters. In Texas, Representative Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker, has turned …

Florida Politics reports: The survey of 600 likely voters from the Independent Center shows Rick Scott leading Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell 46% to 44% in a two-way race, with 10% of respondents unsure who they back. In a race where a third-party option is introduced, Scott leads 43% to 42%, with 11% of respondents unsure and 4% opting for the unnamed …

The Hill reports: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) are locked in a dead heat in Florida’s Senate race, according to polling released by The Hill and Emerson College Polling on Friday. Scott leads Mucarsel-Powell 46 percent to 45 percent among likely Florida voters, well within the survey’s plus or minus 3.14 point margin of error. …

“Didn’t he go on his honeymoon over to China? He has all these relationships with communist Chinese officials and he’s going to be the vice president? “Isn’t that a national security risk for our country when our top officials have all these close ties to the Communist Party? “Trump is going to win the White House In my state, there …

Florida Politics reports: U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said regarding the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris administration, that “all they want to do is do everything they can to indict Trump, convict Trump, put Trump in jail, whatever it is to try to win the election. They’ll go to any means.” “We’ve watched what Nicolás Maduro did, wouldn’t let María Corina …

Florida Politics reports: Rick Scott said Saturday that he “just read a book last year called JFK And The Unspeakable,” which posited that Kennedy was killed amid what author James W. Douglas calls “struggle with his national security state,” which apparently opened that historical question for him. “And if you read the book then the CIA killed John F. Kennedy. …

Florida Politics reports: U.S. Sen. Rick Scott told supporters at a Sarasota rally that he’s trying to end abuse of power in the Senate. And it’s not just the Democratic majority he wants out, he said, as he trashed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell by name. “In the Senate, there’s two dictatorships,” the Naples Republican said. “There’s a McConnell dictatorship …

“Biden’s speech was not the inspiring, unifying speech that’s necessary from the president of the United States in this moment. He can’t even say it was an assassination attempt. That’s not leadership.  “Democrats and liberals in the media have called Trump a fascist. They’ve compared him to Hitler. They’ve tried to lock him up. They tried to remove his Secret …

Florida Politico reports: Behind the backdrop of a large inflatable IUD outside Orlando City Hall, Florida Democrats targeted U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and called him a hypocrite for saying he supported in vitro fertilization (IVF) after he voted against federal protections for it. “It makes sense that a Senator like Rick Scott would say one thing and then do another,” …

The Associated Press reports: Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says he’ll be voting in November against a ballot amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in his state, a deeply personal decision based on his brother’s long history of addiction. The senator and former Florida governor said he watched his brother Roger Scott begin smoking marijuana as a teenager and then …

“What if I told you there’s a magical place. where they can print money and you never have to pay your bills? A place where spending money you don’t have is good, term limits are bad and border security doesn’t matter? “It’s a place where they don’t care about crime or inflation. And where you can invent your own truth. …

“He can. Oh, absolutely. When I left my hotel this morning, there’s a lady from the Bronx. She says every one of her neighbors is for Trump. Everyone. She said this, all these cases, lawsuits, it’s lawfare against Trump. She says it is unfair and un-American.” – Sen. Rick Scott, when asked by Fox News host Cheryl Casone if he …

Florida Politics reports: U.S. Sen. Rick Scott has faced legal questions before, specifically regarding his former health care company and Medicare billing anomalies. But despite pleading the Fifth Amendment 75 times during that case — along with serving in the Navy, spending eight years as Florida’s Governor and living through poverty as a child — Florida’s junior Senator says Donald …

Politico reports: Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott launched a bid Wednesday afternoon to succeed Mitch McConnell as the next Republican leader, telling colleagues he wants to make “dramatic change” in the way the conference operates. The first-term senator will face an uphill battle against Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former whip himself. Scott …