Rick Scott says low-propensity voters trust him as a change agent

Rick Scott Jax image by Gancarski
The Senator has won every election he's had since 2010 and is favored to win this year as well.

Why does U.S. Sen. Rick Scott keep winning elections?

According to new comments from Scott, it’s because voters who don’t vote often trust him to bring change to government.

“I won my elections because those low-propensity voters came out and said, ‘We wanted Florida to change. So we’ve got to make sure it happens,'” Scott said Monday, predicting the state would “probably have 3 million-plus voters tomorrow.”

Scott said he was “optimistic only because I’m talking to people every day.”

“I mean, we have unbelievable rallies. I was all around the state yesterday and it’s exciting. People want Donald Trump to win, they want me to win, they want people up and down the Republican ballot in Florida to win,” the Senator said on “Mornings with Maria.”

Republicans have a more than 800,000 raw vote advantage over Democrats as of Monday morning, suggesting that at least among those who have cast ballots, the GOP has the advantage.

Polls tell a similar story.

Scott has never trailed Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in a single public poll, and RealClearPolitics shows him up by 4.6 points on average.

Trump is up by 8 points over Kamala Harris in the polling average, meanwhile, suggesting that while many states are in play Tuesday, the Sunshine State is not one of them, unless the surveys all missed.

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


9 comments

  • PeterH

    November 4, 2024 at 9:46 am

    LOL 😂

  • MH/Duuuval

    November 4, 2024 at 9:49 am

    Low-propensity voters = low information voters who can be scared into the polls if fed enough lies.

  • Joe

    November 4, 2024 at 11:09 am

    The only humans who could possibly trust this walking skeleton are of the low-intelligence variety.

  • Dont Say FLA

    November 4, 2024 at 11:14 am

    Low propensity voters have zero idea who their senators are, Rick. So if they like their senator, it’s because they have no idea it’s YOU!

  • MarvinM

    November 4, 2024 at 11:24 am

    “Why does U.S. Sen. Rick Scott keep winning elections?”

    Uh, dollars from his personal fortune he donates to his campaign in part?

    And he won 2018 mostly because of a stupid ballot design in Broward County. I did the recount. Ballot after ballot after ballot the race was left empty. Because it was in the column after the instructions, the only race that was printed in the column after the instructions. Very easy to miss.

    Good news – that ballot design problem appears to have been fixed. In Broward County.

  • MH/Duuuval

    November 4, 2024 at 11:50 am

    Good to hear Trick is using some of his own ill-gotten fortune. His donors must be doozies.

  • A Day without Medicare Fraud

    November 4, 2024 at 1:07 pm

    I hope, Hispanic do.not share his corrupt values ,unless they value those of a Banana Republic,lots of fled as immigrants unless they want relive them under Republican values and the hell that Rick Scott policies will bring them Google Rick Scott Medicare Fraudster

    • MH/Duuuval

      November 5, 2024 at 10:20 am

      There’s a generation gap among Cubans, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans. The nearer to the departure from the homeland, the more they embrace machismo and the caudillo.

      US native-born evangelicals are likewise infected, but that is another story that begins with the absence of women from the church hierarchy and scriptures.

      At this juncture, patriarchal Protestantism and Catholicism meet — and women are relegated to the back of the room.

  • Tjb

    November 4, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    Scott= change for the worst.

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