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Rick Scott Savages Mitch McConnell For Trying To Sabotage GOP Senate Races
thefederalist.com ^ | 9/1/22 | Jordan Boyd

Posted on 09/01/2022 11:50:08 AM PDT by cotton1706

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott wants DC Swamp creatures like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to know that his attempts to squash a GOP victory in the Senate this fall by throwing Republican candidates under the bus are “an amazing act of cowardice” and “treasonous to the conservative cause.”

In a short but fiery opinion editorial published on Thursday, Scott lambasted the “many of the very people responsible for losing the Senate last cycle” who are “now trying to stop us from winning the majority this time by trash-talking our Republican candidates” as “fools.”

“Giving anonymous quotes to help the Washington Post or the New York Times write stories trashing Republicans is the same as working with the Democratic National Committee,” Scott wrote. “If you want to talk about the need to raise more money to promote our candidates versus the Democrats’ terrible candidates, I agree. If you want to trash-talk our candidates to help the Democrats, pipe down. That’s not what leaders do. And Republicans need to be leaders that build up the team and do everything they can to get the entire team over the finish line.”

He never mentions McConnell’s name, but it’s clear from his writing that Scott is unhappy with the leader’s recent negativity towards his own party.

Scott’s rebuke comes just a couple of weeks after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell downplayed Republicans’ chances at winning back the upper chamber.

“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” McConnell said. “Senate races are just different, they’re statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: circularfiringsquad; elections; fl; florida; mcconnell; scott; swamp; turtlehaid
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To: cotton1706

The last thing McConnel wants is for his gravy train to end.


21 posted on 09/01/2022 3:37:54 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: cotton1706

You GOOD guys BETTER DEFEAT Mitch for LEADER!! IF you VOTE for him, you are NOT one of the GOOD guys!


22 posted on 09/01/2022 4:14:06 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the sgod of Convenience.)
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To: Seaplaner

THAT is OLD History!! Mitch is TOTALLY CORRUPT and MUST be DEFEATED for LEADER!


23 posted on 09/01/2022 4:15:36 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the sgod of Convenience.)
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To: cotton1706

Isn’t Scott the scumbag that just said “we need to wait and see what shakes out” after the Mar a Lago raid?


24 posted on 09/02/2022 4:06:57 AM PDT by axxmann (If McCain is conservative then I'm a freakin' anarchist.)
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To: cotton1706

Wrong Scott...I knew I should have read the comments first. doh!


25 posted on 09/02/2022 4:09:53 AM PDT by axxmann (If McCain is conservative then I'm a freakin' anarchist.)
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To: axxmann

“Isn’t Scott the scumbag that just said “we need to wait and see what shakes out” after the Mar a Lago raid?”

That’s Scott of SC. Rick Scott is from FL.


26 posted on 09/02/2022 4:10:09 AM PDT by cotton1706
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“Giving anonymous quotes to help the Washington Post or the New York Times write stories trashing Republicans is the same as working with the Democratic National Committee,” Scott wrote

Rick Scott's right on this...

27 posted on 09/02/2022 7:06:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (Merrick's Garland's DOJ & FBI are being renamed "Lavrentiy Beria Society' in honor of Joseph Stalin.)
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