Washington, D.C., March 5, 2020. Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott (R) at a Senate Homeland Security Committee (HSC) hearing.
Former President Donald Trump (R-Texas) had dinner with Republican Senate National Committee (NRSC) Chairman Rick Scott on Thursday (March 11). A Trump adviser confirmed the news to The Epoch Times.
The meeting came after a dispute with the Republican Senatorial National Committee and the Republican National Committee (RNC) over the use of Trump’s name and likeness to raise donations. Previously, these committees have supported Trump’s impeachment.
The group that supports Trump’s impeachment also includes Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). Trump vowed to oppose her in the primary. During a dinner with Scott, Trump expressed an unwillingness to budge on his opposition to Murkowski, according to the adviser.
Politico magazine was the first to report the dinner.
Trump’s advisers confirmed that Trump and Scott discussed candidate recruitment for the 2022 election and solicited Trump’s support for specific incumbents. Scott has focused on finding the best candidates for the midterm elections and figuring out how best to work with Trump’s team.
In an interview with the Miami Herald before the dinner, Scott said he wanted to use the meeting to highlight the need for Trump to work with the NRSC as Republicans look to win back the Senate majority next year.
Scott said, “I want to be the glue, I want to get us all paddling in the same direction.” “My goal is to tell (Trump) what I’m doing. I talked to him and he told me he wants to help me. He’s committed to getting the Republicans back the majority in the U.S. Senate.”
On Feb. 23, Trump issued a statement lambasting Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, in response to McConnell’s blaming Trump for the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol. Later, Scott intervened to try to “cancel” the brewing “cold war” within the Republican Party. In his first comeback speech on Feb. 28, Trump mentioned McConnell but did not attack the Kentucky Republican.
Earlier this week, Trump adviser Jason Miller said on Steve Bannon’s War Room that Trump, the Republican National Committee (RNC), the Republican Senatorial National Committee (NRSC) and the Republican Congressional National Committee (RNC) are all in the same boat. The brief dispute between Trump, the RNC, the Republican Senatorial National Committee (RSC) and the Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) over the use of Trump’s name and likeness has been resolved.
When Bannon pressed Miller to explain how the dispute would end if the committees still continued to support incumbents who had voted to impeach Trump, Miller replied that the committees would abide by the rules and regulations. Nevertheless, he also warned that if these committees attacked any of the Republicans he supported against the Republican members who voted for impeachment, Trump would quickly stop cooperating.
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