A.G. Gancarski
Bad blood from recent years hasn’t been forgotten by the Kentucky Colonel of the Senate.
In his upcoming biography, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is not holding back with criticisms of U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, as revealed by a juicy excerpt spotlighted by CNN.
“I don’t think Rick makes a very good victim,” McConnell said. “I think he did a poor job of running the (Senate campaign) committee.”
“His plan was used by the Democrats against our candidates as late as the last weekend (before the election). He promoted the fiction that we were in the middle of a big sweep when there was no tangible evidence of it. And I think his campaign against me was some kind of ill-fated effort to turn the attention away from him and on to somebody else,” McConnell postulated.
Scott responded Thursday, in comments thus far exclusive to Florida Politics, which roped in his Kentucky colleague’s qualms about “damage” former President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement inflicted on the GOP as well.
“While Leader McConnell and I have fundamental disagreements, I am shocked that he would attack a fellow Republican Senator and the Republican nominee for President just two weeks out from an election,” Scott said.
“I believe we should be talking about solutions, he doesn’t. I support Donald Trump and his work to fundamentally change the way Washington operates, he doesn’t. I believe we should support the candidates Republican voters choose, he doesn’t. With almost $36 trillion in debt, an open southern border, historic inflation, and a world on fire, I know we need dramatic change and he doesn’t.”
Scott, who is running for caucus leader assuming he wins re-election against Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Libertarian Feena Bonoan, unsuccessfully challenged McConnell for the top Senate Republican position in 2022 after Scott’s ill-fated leadership of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
McConnell voiced concerns about “candidate quality” that Scott dismissed.
After the Midterm Elections, when Scott’s promise to flip the Senate Republican went unfulfilled, the Florida Senator mustered just 10 votes in the failed leadership challenge.
15 comments
A Day without GOP
October 24, 2024 at 2:06 pm
This beginning of the GOP civil war,after the Democrats carve them up like a Thanksgiving Day turkey
A day without Libturds
October 24, 2024 at 2:17 pm
The only thing carved up is your smooth brain. Libturds are stupid.
Michael K
October 24, 2024 at 2:08 pm
Ah yes, Rick Scott and his plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare. Of course, McConnell had his chance to rid this nation of toxic Trumpism but cowered – even after Trump used divisive racial slurs against McConnell’s wife, who resigned in protest following the January 6 riot at the capital.
A day without Libturds
October 24, 2024 at 2:19 pm
Thanks to Biden, social security income is now taxable. Libturds love it. They also like the taste of shit.
Tom
October 24, 2024 at 2:26 pm
Really? You must have BDS.
“The taxation of Social Security began in 1984 following passage of a set of Amendments in 1983, which were signed into law by President Reagan in April 1983. These amendments passed the Congress in 1983 on an overwhelmingly bi-partisan vote.”
Michael K
October 24, 2024 at 3:42 pm
Your foul and nasty comments are a disgrace – no substance, just vulgarity. Is that all your party has to offer?
Eliasin Robles
October 25, 2024 at 9:20 am
Typical GOPer. Taxation of Social Security was done by no other than the “wizard” of trickle down economics, Ronald Reagan. Your misinformation campaign doesn’t work with people that discern and think logically.
Tom
October 24, 2024 at 2:19 pm
Like the old saying goes, if you come at the king, you’d better not miss. Ricky boy should have kept his plans to himself until after the election. McConnell is a wily old fox.
Sherry Tate
October 24, 2024 at 9:30 pm
I think it’s time we got rid of Mitch. Why are we sending money to the taliban every week?
MH/Duuuval
October 25, 2024 at 10:40 am
This is the second effort by MAGAs to put the SS tax on the backs of Demos when Reagan was the culprit.
Great to see the responses! We may still deep-6 Trick Scott who, let’s face it, is still living in public housing.
Jason
October 25, 2024 at 10:40 am
We hear they want to take Medicare. .. Not the welfare… but house wives are no longer the thing anymore lack of moneys is now career girls
It's Complicated
October 25, 2024 at 11:49 am
McConnell has a solid seat among the corrupt and ethically challenged politicians of Washington, DC. He has been a black mark on the GOP for years. Criticism from him are like words of praise.
MH/Duuuval
October 25, 2024 at 1:36 pm
Yeah, but each embrace of DJT by Mitch is a reminder of how failed to defend his wife.
Ocean Joe
October 25, 2024 at 3:09 pm
No fan of McConnell, but he made the reactionary Supreme Court we have today possible. He killed Roe v Wade by blocking Obama’s choice. All Trump did was rubber stamp the list sent to him by the Federalist society of who to appoint.
Nothing like an ungrateful Maga. You should have a statue for the guy at every Evangelical church. Rick Scott buys a senate seat with some of his $300m golden parachute after being shown the door by the other 2 board members of HCA after that $1.7 BILLION in fines, costs and restitution for defrauding medicare. That’s our senator!
Ocean Joe
October 25, 2024 at 3:04 pm
“I don’t think Rick makes a very good victim,” McConnell said. “I think he did a poor job of running the (Senate campaign) committee.”
Rick gave us TWO Democratic senators from Ruby Red Georgia! One Black, and one Jewish! But Trump deserves some of the credit for pushing the ‘let them eat cake’ money bags lady and Herschel Walker two of the worst candidates ever.