U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, said Tuesday (Feb. 23) that he just spoke with former President Donald Trump (R-Texas) about the 2022 midterm elections.
Scott is a former Florida governor who became a U.S. senator in 2019. Scott was just elected in January to serve as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is responsible for defending 20 Republican Senate seats in the general election next year, including four vacant seats left open because incumbent Republican senators are no longer seeking re-election.
Scott said he has spoken with former President Trump about the 2022 election.
“I just talked to him about the election …… I told him I want to win (back in Congress) in ’22.” Scott said.
“I’m going to be very specific about where I think he can help, and then he can make a decision, whether he wants to do that.” Scott added.
Scott is the second Republican senator to talk to Trump about the 2022 election in recent days. The first was recently re-elected Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has traveled to Florida to meet with Trump, where the two sides talked about the future of the Republican Party.
Trump has threatened to challenge the so-called establishment in party primaries, including Sen. John Thune (R-S.C.), the No. 2 Republican in the Senate; in a statement last week, Trump made clear that he is willing to participate in Republican primaries and will support those who embrace the spirit of “Make America Great Again” and In a statement last week, Trump made it clear that he was willing to participate in the Republican primary and would support Republican candidates who embrace the spirit of “Make America Great Again” and follow the “America First” policy.
In this regard, Scott said that he supports the incumbent Republican senator to run with the Trump-backed contestants, also includes competing with Trump’s Family members in the primary election.
When asked about the possibility of a primary election, Scott said he was non-committal, noting that the Republican Party “still has a whole bunch of people who will run.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) previously told the media that the Republican goal for next year’s midterm elections is to win back the majority in both houses of Congress, and that he could cross paths with Trump in a Republican Senate primary.
“My goal is to have a Republican nominee who can win in November in every way possible.” McConnell told “Politico” on 13, “Some of them may be people the former president likes. Some of them may not be. My only concern is the likelihood that (they) will be elected.”
Although some leading Republicans have joined Democrats and opposed Trump in the House’s second impeachment against him and believe he is no longer the head of the Republican Party; Trump’s civic influence remains high, and at least three of the seven Republican senators who voted down have received written party censure from their state Republican committees.
A recent poll conducted jointly by Suffolk University and USA Today found that about 46 percent of Republican respondents said they would abandon the Republican Party and join Trump’s new party if he formed one; only 27 percent said they would remain in the Republican Party. The rest said they had not yet decided.
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