Rick Scott expects ‘incapacitated’ Joe Biden to be Democratic presidential nominee
Rick Scott. Image via AP.

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'I think it's very difficult to change.'

While Florida’s junior Senator doesn’t think the President of the United States can handle his current job, he nonetheless expects Democrats to keep “incapacitated person” Joe Biden atop the ticket.

“I think Biden will be their nominee. I think it’s very difficult to change,” Rick Scott told Newsmax viewers during an interview at Milwaukee’s Republican National Convention.

“So I always thought he would be their nominee. I’ve always thought this, all year long, but we clearly see an incapacitated person that doesn’t have the ability to be President of the United States.”

Scott has made issue of Biden’s alleged deterioration in the past, but especially in the wake of last month’s debate between Biden and Donald Trump, as the current President seemed to struggle with presentation early on.

“I don’t think anybody watching that believes that Joe Biden has the capacity to function as the President. Not today, not tomorrow, not next Jan. 20,” Scott said during an appearance on the Guy Benson Show. “So I think what every Democrat in the country needs to do is they need to say whether they believe that Joe Biden ought to be top of the ticket.”

The Senator raised similar concerns after a high-profile ABC News interview this month, where Biden was attempting to reset perceptions after the debate.

“The George Stephanopoulos interview has made one thing clear: Joe Biden is completely unfit to serve as president for the next 6 months, much less the next 4 years. This is exactly what the 25th Amendment was meant for,” Scott posted to social media.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


24 comments

  • Ocean Joe

    July 17, 2024 at 1:03 pm

    Meanwhile, unfortunately, I expect morally incapacitated Rick to be reelected and vote in favor of a federal abortion ban, repeal of Obamacare, and in favor of a huge tax cut for the wealthy.

    • MH/Duuuval

      July 17, 2024 at 1:43 pm

      And, Trick might still be in the Senate in his 80s when Social Security and Medicare start coming up short — and we know how that ends.

    • Paul Passarelli

      July 17, 2024 at 4:39 pm

      What’s funny to me is that by Gancarski’s seemly tries to twist Scott’s words to make it seem like he approved of Biden’t spot ion the ticket. I think he’s missed the sarcasm in the statements. Based on that kind of grammatical interpretation, we might conclude that you, Ocean Joe, approve of: “… in favor of a federal abortion ban, repeal of Obamacare, and in favor of a huge tax cut for the wealthy.”

      The only real question come November is how badly the Democrats get their hides tanned, their asses whooped, or their backsides whipped. And that depends solely on how hard they cheat with mail-in ballots, illegal voters, and the other forms of fraud they’re planning to commit.

      • Tjb

        July 17, 2024 at 5:33 pm

        Ocean Joe, did you know that when Paul ran for state election in Connecticut he received just over 1% of the vote. If would have been less, but he cheated with mail-ballot and fraud.

        • Ocean Joe

          July 17, 2024 at 8:17 pm

          I dont agree with much Mr. Paul has to say, but I do respect that he actually ran for something. I know it’s the liberal way, but I like the diversity he and lonely Impeach Biden bring here.
          Did he cheat? Unlike Republicans, I’m not one to automatically assume that. Are there ballots with bamboo fibers, or 21 mules, or ginger mints? The worst thing about Trumpism is that he managed to make half the country as cynical as he is.

          • MH/Duuuval

            July 17, 2024 at 9:33 pm

            PP’s diverse all right: “And that depends solely on how hard they cheat with mail-in ballots, illegal voters, and the other forms of fraud they’re planning to commit.”

            Not diverse — divorced from reality.

    • Lynda B

      July 17, 2024 at 9:21 pm

      That Part…

  • Silly Wabbit

    July 17, 2024 at 2:10 pm

    Wick kwazy.

  • ScienceBLVR

    July 17, 2024 at 2:47 pm

    If Biden is too incapacitated to serve as president, he’s doing a pretty good job compared to Trump. Economy’s doing great, did you see the stock market? Crime is way down regardless of what the crazies in the GOP say. Of course, individual rights, educators, women, science, logical and rational reasoning among others are under attack- ya can thank Trumper for that. Keep it up, Joe, and if you need a rest, VP Harris will do just fine.

    • Impeach Biden

      July 17, 2024 at 3:12 pm

      Just read an article about a high number of restaurants closing in my area. Much higher rents, electricity, food, wages, etc. The stock market is doing nicely no thanks to Joe. Then I read another article about people getting their nice watches stolen from them in NYC. Inflation is still rampant. I see it every day at the grocery store and Home Depot. The mall near my house for the first time ever has signage displayed warning people about where they park their car and to keep their head on a swivel.. If the media is telling you everything is fine then I offer the BS they have been feeding the American people for years about the mental health of Joe

      • rick whitaker

        July 20, 2024 at 9:04 am

        howler monkey, you live in a shitty part of a shitty state. do you expect it to smell like roses? you are so unintellectual that you don’t get much. go back to school, you need it to survive.

    • Ocean Joe

      July 17, 2024 at 8:27 pm

      You are cheering for his handlers, he needs to step down but is too mentally challenged now to understand that. On the other hand, losing in an electoral college landslide might be better for the country as we know Trump will claim he won regardless of the truth and will ignite serious civil unrest across the country.

      How can we know this? He’s done it before. So if you want what a second Trump term will bring, keep pushing Biden. And Trump will be all smiles when he signs that federal ban on abortion. Guaranteed.

      • MH/Duuuval

        July 17, 2024 at 9:37 pm

        Defeatism: “…losing in an electoral college landslide might be better for the country as we know Trump will claim he won regardless of the truth and will ignite serious civil unrest across the country.”

        Trump got you buffaloed?

    • Lynda B

      July 17, 2024 at 9:23 pm

      Amen!

  • Rex Patterson

    July 17, 2024 at 3:47 pm

    Too bad Fraud Scott wasn’t on the receiving end of what Trump was the other day.

  • My Take

    July 17, 2024 at 4:16 pm

    He doesn’t mind a convicted felon to be president.

    • Paul Passarelli

      July 17, 2024 at 7:16 pm

      Nope. Neither do I. The “conviction” you’re crowing over is bogus. Contrast this with Sleepy Joe who is for all intents an unconvicted *FELON*.

      What’s the difference? Mr. Trump was wrongly convicted based on some procedural technicality. Whereas Biden remains un-convicted despite having deliberately (i.e. meeting the criteria known as ‘mens rea’ or ‘the guilty mind’) committed acts of treason, and fraud.

      Ya know, it’s sad, you Lefty Useful Idiots are so quick to open your mouths and insert your feet. And I’m just a guy who likes to point that shit out.

      • Ocean Joe

        July 17, 2024 at 8:22 pm

        How bout the E Jean Carroll sexual battery case, or whatever it was. Trump said she was not his type, then misidentified her as his wife in a deposition. OK, he’s a saint.

        Lets not get carried away here. We are confronted with two of the least qualified candidates for president in memory.
        One is vile, one is senile.

      • MH/Duuuval

        July 17, 2024 at 9:28 pm

        “Lefty Useful Idiots are so quick to open your mouths and insert your feet. And I’m just a guy who likes to point that shit out.”

        How is this bombast helpful?

      • rick whitaker

        July 20, 2024 at 9:08 am

        paul, so you know more than the 12 jurors that convicted trump of felonies. you sound like one of the rapist at the state prison that all claim to be innocent and got framed. you sound mentally unstable, have you been tested?

        • Paul Passarelli

          July 20, 2024 at 11:35 am

          Ever hear of a Kangaroo Court? You did grow up in the USA didn’t you? You repeatedly display a vast ignorance for so many things that are well known and well understood in the American culture.

          Makes me thing you’re either a Soviet Plant or complete & total moron, or maybe you just did too many drugs in the late 60s & early 70s.

  • wake

    July 18, 2024 at 1:01 pm

    Crooked Rick sure knows his amendments and his favorite is the 5th! He and his felon, rapist, sharter idol can go to Hell!

    • MH/Duuuval

      July 18, 2024 at 5:58 pm

      TRUMP BEATS TRICK on 5th:
      Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday during a deposition before lawyers from New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office in its probe into the Trump Organization’s business practices.

      The deposition lasted four hours, and the only question the former president answered was about his name, Trump attorney Ron Fischetti told NBC News.

      A source with knowledge of the deposition said Trump took the Fifth more than 440 times.

      NBC ONLINE, 2022

  • Paul Passarelli

    July 20, 2024 at 11:30 am

    The huge uptick in Useful Idiot postings is a pretty clear indicator of how nervous the Lefties truly are.

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