A.G. Gancarski
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, during a Wednesday night appearance on Newsmax, was coy when asked whether he might challenge the election of Joe Biden on Jan. 6 when Congress could contest the results of the Electoral College.
“We’ll see,” the Senator told host Greg Kelly, when asked if he would join with a House member to call into question electoral votes from states Republicans don’t think Biden could have won.
Kelly pressed Scott for a commitment, but had little luck there.
“What’s important is to go through the process, get the information,” Scott said. “If anybody’s going to do something, you want to do it in a responsible manner and make sure you can explain what you believe in.”
“A lot of us are looking at this to make sure this election was done fairly,” Scott added, language considerably softer than the President might use if asked.
Scott, Florida’s junior Senator approaching his two-year anniversary in office, advised that it was “important to go through the process.”
“All of us are in the same position. We’re trying to get as much information as possible. We’re going to continue to watch what’s going on.”
“We know there was a lot of fraud,” Scott continued. “In the beginning, the Democrats were saying there was no fraud. Now they’re saying there’s not enough fraud.”
The Senator’s Newsmax hit was following up on Wednesday’s meeting of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs .
The Senator likened American state-level election administration to how the vote is run in Venezuela, asking “how is this different than what (Nicolás) Maduro‘s doing?”
“It’s so simplistic when you hear about people who are dead that vote, people that don’t live in the state that vote. You hear all these things, and there’s no recourse,” Scott added.
No recourse, and apparently no action from the Senate side. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told the caucus that a challenge is a no-go.
And Scott, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, looks poised to fall in line and hold his tongue.
6 comments
S B ANTHONY
December 16, 2020 at 9:08 pm
So, if the election was not done “fairly,” that means that Biden may have won Florida. And those House seats that the Dems allegedly lost may still be Democratic. Right?
Sonja Fitch
December 17, 2020 at 3:58 am
“Fall in line”? Nazi Rick ? This rich old white man has had a career of killing and harming Americans! The LINE for Nazi Rick is to out-crazy Duffus Desantis and DUI Gaetz! This is going to be a hell of a two years! Florida we shall vote out these damn freaks of the goptrump death cult! Cause Floridians may appreciate weird! But Floridians do not appreciate Crazy Killers, Nazi Rick Duffus Desantis and DUI Gaetz! Resign you three pieces of human scum!
Frankie M.
December 17, 2020 at 7:34 am
Shit or get off the pot Ricky
Arl
December 17, 2020 at 8:01 am
“We’ll See” Need to add WHAT’S BEST FOR ME.” Scott is playing the fence because his ulterior motive is for himself and a run at the top office. Not what’s best for the people who vote him in. Scott is anther Trump.
Tom mims
December 17, 2020 at 7:19 pm
Well he does know something about fraud…
Claude Kirk
December 18, 2020 at 2:10 pm
Scott is no longer the man we sent to Washington from The Great State of Florida. He has drank of the Swamp Water and is mad for his own power and gain. The swamp water disintegrated his backbone too.
Should we re elect Scott?
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