Florida Senate President with U.S. Sen. Rick Scott in Tallahassee on Jan. 30, 2024 (photo credit: Mitch Perry)
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Florida U.S. Senator Rick Scott was in Tallahassee on Tuesday, where he complained about the atmosphere in Washington D.C., calling it “completely dysfunctional,” yet also making the case that he can help change the political culture there if he were to be reelected by Florida voters in November.
Florida’s junior U.S. senator was in town in part to receive the endorsement of 80 Senate and House Republicans in his bid for a second six-year term in the Senate. Scott has served in elected office in Florida for more than 13 years now — eight as governor (2010-2018) and the last five serving in the U.S. Senate. In all three elections, his largest margin of victory was just 1.2%.
However, that was in a period when there were a lot more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state, something the 71-year-old noted when speaking at his campaign event, held in the basement of the Florida Retail Federation office next to the state Capitol building with dozens of legislative Republicans crowded near him.