Rick Scott says Donald Trump leadership endorsement TBD

Rick Scott Jax photo by Gancarski
'I'm hoping he will, right. But he's got an election.'

Former President Donald Trump enthusiastically is endorsing Rick Scott for re-election, but the Naples Republican isn’t saying when or if Trump will back him openly in his battle to lead the Senate.

“Well, I’m hoping he will, right. But he’s got an election. So there’s three people in the race so far to be the Republican leader. So we’ll see, hopefully he’ll endorse me. But, you know, that’s a choice,”  Scott said Saturday in Jacksonville, at a GOTV event at the Duval County Republican headquarters.

Scott had previously said Trump is “excited” that he’s running for the position again, but that he wasn’t sure if Trump would endorse him or not to lead the Senate GOP caucus.

Scott got 10 votes in his challenge to Mitch McConnell in 2022’s leadership fight. This time around, John Cornyn of Texas and John Thune of South Dakota represent the competition.

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


16 comments

  • Yrral

    August 17, 2024 at 2:38 pm

    Him and Trump will be playing golf in the banana Republic together, Florida got a bad demographic old people and foreigner,not like most states that have a diverse population

  • Linwood Wright

    August 17, 2024 at 3:33 pm

    Just a little reminder that Trump raped a 13 year girl at Jeffery Epstein orgy in 1994.

    Each and every single person who supports Trump also supports pedophilia.

    • The Escalator Says

      August 18, 2024 at 6:37 am

      “Just put that on my tab”

  • Phil Morton

    August 17, 2024 at 3:58 pm

    Rick Scott will not be in leadership in 2025. Hell, he won’t even be in the Senate. U.S. Senator Debbie Mucarsel-Powell has a nice ring to it.

    • Kamala is Brat 🥥🌴🥥

      August 17, 2024 at 4:06 pm

      From your lips to god’s ears….. I hope she’s listening.

    • maria

      August 18, 2024 at 10:57 pm

      That Part!

  • C Lewandowski

    August 17, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    Dearest Rick,
    I really don’t think you’ve groveled enough to win the Orange One’s endorsement! Perhaps if you don some knee pads and stop by Trump’s clown training school in West Palm Beach for say $100K behavior lessons Trump will reconsider!
    Yours truly in Christ,
    Corey Lewandowski

  • Yrral

    August 17, 2024 at 7:32 pm

    If this woman just run Scott fraud investigation,she will win,he is triggered by that

  • Ocean Joe

    August 18, 2024 at 6:35 am

    Billionaires Gone Wild.
    Scott should get the endorsement in exchange for going to Brooklyn during Trump’s last trial to tell us how scared he was about weaponization of the justice department, claiming the government came after him too.

    Does he think the government should do nothing to prevent or stop the looting of our treasury? Does he actually think the investigation and prosecution of HCA for massive medicare fraud was some kind of witch hunt?

  • Philip W. Harris

    August 18, 2024 at 8:29 am

    Dick Scott and Ron Deathsantis have singlehandly destroyed Florida! They sold us all out to all their developer freinds.They should be put in prison not in office!

  • Lorene Bell

    August 18, 2024 at 8:51 am

    So what your saying is, Bill Clinton’s and many high profile politicians association
    with Epstien, is okay as long as you hold Trump accountable ? This is the problem. It should be the same for any pedophile. And please do not over look Kamala she was there to.

    • Ocean Joe

      August 18, 2024 at 9:06 am

      Where was Kamala? One conspiracy at a time. Please adjust the tinfoil hat.
      Nobody I know defends Bill Clinton for being such a sleazebag, we just feel sorry for anybody married to Hillary.
      By the way, first and last budget surplus in a long time, soaring stock market, no war, not bad. Too bad he spoiled it by going along with Daddy Bush on Nafta sending our jobs away.

  • Ruby Guerra

    August 18, 2024 at 12:13 pm

    Politics is dirty and dangerous…its never “right” and always “wrong”; depending on the script and depending on the reader!

    Do your homework, don’t EVER RELY on other’s opinion…get your own opinion on your own!! Novel endeavor, right?

    Look up “backgrounds, who endorsed who? How did it benefit our Country? Or, did it only benefit a “self-serving goal”?

    We are here to elect and endorse those who serve and provide benefits FOR AMERICA & AMERICANS. NOT TO SELF-SERVE & POCKET AMERICA’S RICHES FOR THEMSELVES.

    Politicians are out for their own gain and fortune…AMERICA 🇺🇸 DOES NOT NEED THESE POLITICIANS !!!! History holds proof of the disloyalty and treason draped over AMERICA by these politicians.

    IF AMERICA IS TO REMAIN FREE AND VIABLE,
    AMERICANS MUST “WAKE UP ⏰ ” from the hypnotic spell dosed over our voters to follow a piper that is leading us all to destroying “Our UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!” Destrying our core values, our purpose that we are one nation, united, seeking AMERICAN VALUES !

    Vote wisely, our freedom and future depends on who is “elected” to lead our U.S A.
    GOD BLESS AMERICA!

  • debra

    August 19, 2024 at 10:40 am

    It is Blatantly Obvious A FEW Here Suffer Greatly From TDS. Especially Those Morons Lying About PDJT Raping AnyONE Let Alone a 13 Year Old Girl. You’re a Truly Demented, Delusional POS. Not A Human Being & Obviously Many Void of ANY Common Sense, Just WAY Too Common. Talk About FACTS? You’re All PUPPETS. Cannot THINK For Yourselves, Just PUPPET What the Paid PIMPS & HO’S Parrot For THEIR Millions & More Mansions. You All Hate the FACT That People Who Are Were Never “POLITICIANS” Made THEIR Money Actually WORKING FOR IT, Giving PROVIDING JOBS…NOT Lying, Faking It to MAKE IT & Playing a REALLY BAD Puppet, Like the WEEKEND At Bernies 2 Up There Now + The ONE Who DID Commit STOLEN VALOR More Than ONCE, More Than TWICE, More than 3 TIMES!! I Counted Last Clips 9 TIMES…He LIED About His “Service, Carrying Weapons & HIS RANK”..But Hey, He DOES FIT Right In With the REST OF Those….SICKENING Brain Dead Freaks Helping ALL Those “Politicians” Who’ve Never “”WORKED”” At Anything Except Selling OUT America & Legal & Lawful Americans, FOR Collectively BILLIONS & The Fundamental TRANS-Formations Of America & Using Replacement Migration to Get It Done, Plus the Complete Weaponization of All Gov. Ag’s, Dept’s Branches & Institutions, Local to Feds…To Keep the CABAL the Commie Regime In Power & Control…BTW That $25,000 To Help with a Down Payment She’s PIMPING Now?? Good Luck. Remember Shovel Ready JOBS Or Cash for Clunkers, Or How About Just 1 More, SOLYNDRA..There Are Hundreds More…SO “”THEY”” Can Ruin America & Control The Minions Who Blindly Support Them So THEY Can MAKE More & Buy More Mansions….Instead, PDJT Lost $…He Already MADE HIS $ & Had WORKED FOR HIS MANSIONS…You People Are So Damned Dumbed Down But Hey, 16+ Years in the MAKING….Think Back…It’s When & How it All Began….

    • Ocean Joe

      August 19, 2024 at 12:25 pm

      Trump made his money the old fashioned way. He inherited $400,000,000 from pops. His companies have been sued 4,000 times. Why? Mostly from shorting contractors. Fraud? Did you attend Trump University? Mismanagement? 11 bankruptcies, including casinos. How does a casino go broke?
      Aside from picking his golf balls out of the rough, I can assure you Trump’s never gotten his hands dirty.

  • Michael K

    August 19, 2024 at 4:43 pm

    I think Rick Scott is a senile old man past his prime – like another old Florida man, who is a twice-impeached convicted felon also losing his mind.

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