Posted on 01/21/2021 4:41:45 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
Florida Senator Rick Scott, the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said on Thursday that he'd support incumbent Senators if they face primaries, and that's the case even if fellow Florida Senator Marco Rubio were to face a primary challenge from Ivanka Trump.
There have been rumors that former President Trump's daughter might challenge Rubio in his bid for reelection in 2022. Mr. Trump has also said that he wants to to see South Dakota Senator John Thune, the number two Republican in the Senate, challenged in a primary.
"I'm supporting incumbents," Scott told reports when pressed on the issue multiple times. He also said that "nobody has talked to me" about the possibility of Ivanka Trump running a primary challenge against Rubio.
Scott said that he hasn't spoken with President Trump since he left office. He also defended his vote two weeks ago to object to counting the Electoral College votes in Pennsylvania.
As NRSC Chair, Scott is responsible for leading the GOP's effort to recapture the Senate. That would include keeping seats in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the hands of Republicans. Republicans won't have incumbent candidates running in North Carolina or Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson hasn't said if he'll seek re-election. Republicans will also be targeting currently held Democratic seats in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and New Hampshire.
Scott said he wants the election to "be about issues" and wants to see people focus on the "difference between Republicans and Democrats." He said it would be up to each Republican senator, including those up for reelection, to decide whether to vote to convict former President Trump. Republicans who vote to convict Mr. Trump could end up facing primary challengers backed by the former president.
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Based upon the sentiment of Trump voters, its seems a bit foolhardy at this point for the Chair of the NRSC to be making blanket statements that RINO Incumbents are off limits.
We gotta potty train the GOP...
With rigged machines it’s an easy statement to make.
We will never change the GOP, they are a globalist party.
If we want a MAGA party, we will have to start one.
Rubio vs. Ivanka? Is that in the Democrat primary or the Republican?
It’s best to purge RINOs in solid red states. I’ll never criticize someone like Susan Collins for voting like a RINO, but it’s inexcusable for an @sshole like Mitt Romney or John Thune or Ben Sasse to ever side with the Democrats on any contentious issue.
GOP über alles and to hell with their base! Faithless bastards.
The GOP is dead to me.
Didn’t we have some good debates earlier today about a new party? Many want to keep the GOP and primary everyone. Well the GOP just told us they’re not going to let that happen.
Bye Bye Rick.
I wouldn’t even change the GOP’s diapers at this point.
They never learn. Too many years of promising everyone they’ll do anything to protect the 2nd Amendment, lower taxes, reduce immigration. Never really doing anything other than bowing down to Schumer.
Time will tell if folks are willing to step up and take on that machine. They’ll be coming at whoever they are with both barrels.
However, if the new guy/gal has the President supporting him/her, it’s a done deal. Bye Bye incumbent.
If a solitary candidate is put up in a primary against any Republican that votes to impeach Trump, that incumbent will be defeated. Their only hope is that the primary has multiple candidates who split the anti incumbent vote.
I would rather Don Jr. definitely NOT Ivanka!!{
Dump Scott; the horsesarse has offered nothing to benefit the Republican Party or Trump, and that’s the way Mitch likes it.
Either start a new party or play the same game as the “Justice Democrats” start primaring easy to pick off representative locations and start our own “squad”
I’m shocked - shocked, I tell ya!
He and the NRSC will have to do it without MAGA money.
Not a recipe for success.
If only the GOP would fight Dems half as hard as they fight Conservatives, they would never lose.
That’s his job. He won’t, though, fight losing battles. Look at Jeff Flake in AZ. Someone who loses a bunch of support will not likely be showered with money.
Hope he has deep pockets.
>>Scott said he wants the election to “be about issues” and wants to see people focus on the “difference between Republicans and Democrats.”
Perhaps Mr. Scott should start by ensuring that there IS a “difference between Republicans and Democrats.”
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