Rick Scott hasn’t given up his quest to vanquish Mitch McConnell and restore his own battered image inside the Republican conference.
Sen. Rick Scott speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesIn late November of 2022, Sen. Rick Scott received a text from an aide to Mitch McConnell. In the new Congress, the terse message informed him, Scott would no longer be a member of the powerful Commerce Committee.
But Scott’s message is still about McConnell. In a letter to fellow Republican senators on Wednesday, he detailed a list of process grievances he says Republicans have been burdened with under McConnell’s long reign, complaining about a lack of transparency, “too many backroom deals cut in secret,” and “caving in to Democrat demands.”.
No, but, you’ve got a little bit of an in. I mean, I know you know Trump, but you also know Susie Wiles. So do you think you have the inside track here because of that? We needed to have an overall plan. We didn’t. OK. But if you’re the NRSC chair, you don’t get to do that. That was driven by the leader of the Senate who made the decision not to have a plan. He was very clear.
I think if you go back and look at the numbers — I think we did pretty well in fundraising. But, look, would you always like to raise more money? Yeah. We like to raise more money.I think the thing that surprised us was the amount of money Planned Parenthood and their affiliates spent.If you look at my background, I’m a turnaround guy. I turned around companies, and then I turned around Florida. I ran when Florida was in trouble financially, and people were leaving the state, actually.
Right. But so much of your case and what you just laid out there is a rebuke of the current leadership of McConnell. And I can’t help but throw this quote out. When Trump endorsed you for reelection this year, for senator, he said you’re “the only person who has been willing to take on the very destructive super RINO, Mitch McConnell.” Is that true?
Well, I’ve listened, and when I talk to people, people are frustrated. And they’re frustrated that they don’t have any input in how things are going here. On top of that, I think Trump’s going to win. I think it’s important to have somebody who is going to help Trump get his agenda passed. So I think the way that should happen is and by the way, we’re supposed to have a legislative agenda in our bylaws, which we’ve never had since I’ve been up here.It’s all of our jobs. So the way it should happen is we ought to be meeting. My experience in business is that you first decide what you would like to accomplish if you’re starting a company.
What are the pros and cons of sending the U.S. military into Gaza to try and rescue American hostages? Isn’t that going to be very disappointing to a lot of pro-life activists that have supported you in Florida? Here’s what’s frustrating about the supplemental that Schumer and Biden put together. I didn’t even get an amendment vote. I had a simple amendment. I don’t think any money ought to go to Hamas. That’s not controversial. It would have passed overwhelmingly. It passed, I think 99 to 1 or something before. And then Schumer stripped it out on — I think — a reconciliation bill. But I didn’t even get a vote. That’s not the way this place ought to work. If I can’t sell my ideas, that’s my problem.
And a lot of Republicans said, “No, we don’t want to tell them, because that’s immediately going to be interpreted as cuts.” My experience in things is what we ought to do first. Let’s talk about how do we rebuild the American economy and how do we get the American economy going? Because the revenues in this country will skyrocket.
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