Tag Archives: Rick Scott

The Hill reports: “Here’s what happened to us: Election Day, our voters didn’t show up, we didn’t get enough voters. It was a complete disappointment,” Sen. Rick Scott told Fox News host Sean Hannity during his primetime show. Hannity asked Scott: “Where did all this pie in the sky talk about a wave and a tsunami election come from? Because …

Florida Politics reports: A second Florida Senator seems willing to consider life in the GOP caucus after Mitch McConnell’s leadership. Fresh off a decisive win Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted Friday that the “Senate GOP leadership vote next week should be postponed.” This comes as other Senators, including Rick Scott, circulate a petition to that effect. Rubio’s tweet was …

Florida Politics reports: The holiday season is coming, but U.S. Sen. Rick Scott worries that the high cost of living will mar the general merriment. In his latest denunciation of inflation under the Joe Biden administration, the Senator warns that cost spirals threaten to “crush spirits” amid “holiday preparations.” “As Americans begin holiday preparations, Joe Biden’s raging inflation crisis is …

The Daily Beast reports:  As head of the Senate’s Republican campaign committee, Sen. Rick Scott appeared on Meet The Press on Sunday to discuss the GOP’s final midterm election push, but moderator Chuck Todd took the opportunity to see if an intra-party Senate battle was in store for the senator himself. “A couple of quick questions about your future,” Todd …

Mediaite reports: CNN anchor Dana Bash smacked down Sen. Rick Scott’s claim that Democrats “cut Medicare” by allowing the agency to negotiate for lower drug prices. President Joe Biden has been attacking Scott regularly over a proposal that would cause Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid to sunset every five years, requiring Congress to reauthorize them. On Sunday morning’s edition of …

The Huffington Post reports: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) bestowed a freedom-themed award to Fox News host Sean Hannity during his program on Thursday. Hannity was speaking with Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) when he noticed a red box that Scott had brought out to the stage. Scott, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he had created …

Florida Politics reports: Rick Scott again isn’t providing Ron DeSantis much rhetorical cover when it comes to Florida’s property insurance problems. During an interview that aired Sunday, Scott said that rates had “skyrocketed” in the last four years, a time roughly equivalent to DeSantis’ era in Tallahassee. “And now what you’ve seen is the cost of property insurance has just …

Florida Politics reports: How high a priority is Florida for national Republicans in the Midterms? The Republican National Committee is announcing that its “Take Back Our Country Tour” will hold one its first stops in the Sunshine State. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), announced the tour with Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna …

NBC News reports: Republican Sens. Rick Scott of Florida, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas announced they will travel to Georgia to campaign for Herschel Walker on Tuesday. Last week, The Daily Beast reported allegations that Walker, who supports a ban on abortion without any exceptions, paid for the abortion of a woman …

Via press release from Sen. Rick Scott: When the Democrats are losing, as they are right now, they lie and cheat and smear their opponents. That’s what’s happening right now. They know they are on the verge of losing the Senate, and they know that Herschel Walker is winning, so they have cranked up the smear machine. This is just …

The Daily Beast reports: Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) tried his best at justifying former President Donald Trump’s racist Truth Social post from Friday, in which the ex-commander in chief said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had a “DEATH WISH” and called his former transportation secretary Elaine Chao “Coco Chow.” The senator, flailing after being asked during a CNN appearance about …

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rick Scott sent a joint letter on Friday to the Senate Appropriations Committee chairs to secure funding “provide much needed assistance to Florida.” The Senate passed a short-term spending bill on Thursday that includes an additional $18.8 billion for FEMA to respond to Hurricane Ian and future disasters. The vote was …

Florida Politics reports: The difference of opinion continues between Mitch McConnell and Rick Scott regarding whether Republicans will retake the Senate this year. In a Senate Republican leadership press conference Tuesday in Washington, Minority Leader McConnell again threw cold water on the expectation of a GOP Senate majority this year. “I’ve consistently said for two years now that the Senate …

Florida Politics reports: In a 30-minute rant touching on a range of issues at the National Conservatism Convention (NatCon), Scott repeated his allegation that election officials in Florida “illegally counted 95,000 ballots after election night” in 2018 to keep former Democratic U.S. Bill Nelson in office. “When I won in 2018, I won by 57,000 votes. They illegally counted 95,000 …

Florida Politics reports: U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is continuing his series of personal attacks against a Democratic candidate for Senate from Pennsylvania. Scott said Tuesday in a national interview that moneyed parents would not want their children to turn out like Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. “You know what I think about Fetterman? It’s exactly: If you’ve made any money, you …

The New York Times reports: By the end of July, the committee had collected a record $181.5 million — but had already spent more than 95 percent of what it had brought in. The Republican group entered August with just $23.2 million on hand. Now top Republicans are beginning to ask: Where did all the money go? The answer, chiefly, …

“Let’s look at this for a second. We’ve got a world-renowned doctor, a Heisman Trophy winner, a successful business person, a small business man and a Congressman from a farming community, a best-selling author who showed the struggles of drug addiction, an Iraqi War veteran who served two terms as state attorney general, a successful construction entrepreneur and a nurse …

“Ron Johnson’s running a great race against a radical in Wisconsin. Ted Budd’s running a great race against a soft-on-crime North Carolina Supreme Court justice. Herschel’s running a great race against Warnock down in Georgia. We’ve got J.D. Vance running a great race against Tim Ryan. “We’ve got great candidates. Look at the background of these people. I mean, these …

Axios reports: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is spending part of his congressional recess on a luxury yacht in Italy with his family after criticizing President Biden for vacationing in Delaware, Axios has learned. Scott is the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, whose job is to win back a GOP majority in the upper chamber. Scott is already under …

Florida Politics reports: “Fetterman, first off, lied about his health. Fetterman wasn’t even on the campaign trail for months. I’m sorry that he’s had health problems, but he lied about it. And that right there should be a disqualifying factor,” Scott said on Tuesday’s Hugh Hewitt Show. The Scott attack comes as Oz, a television star behind Fetterman in polls …