Rick Scott is tired of Mitch McConnell -and other Republicans- doubting his Senate recruits
Politico
Mitch McConnell is among the myriad Republicans questioning the Senate GOPs quality of candidates in the midterms. Rick Scott wants everyone to stop doubting his recruits.
Sen. McConnell and I clearly have a strategic disagreement here
We have great candidates, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chair said in an interview Wednesday. He wants to do the same thing I want to do: I want to get a majority. And I think its important that were all cheerleaders for our candidates.
McConnell predicted in August that the House was more likely to flip than the Senate, because in the upper chamber candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. The comment reflected an increasingly public attitude within the GOP about their prospects of flipping the chamber.
And by acknowledging a rift with McConnell over the partys strategy, the Florida senator is barreling ahead on his unorthodox approach.
Across the map, Republicans are worried about blowing an opportunity to flip the 50-50 Senate. J.D. Vance is struggling to fend off Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in Ohio, Herschel Walker is lagging behind Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Mehmet Oz is trailing Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in Pennsylvania and Republicans are starting to bail on Blake Masters challenge to Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). But it is only September, and both parties expect races to tighten races and political spending to skyrocket.
David Bergstein, a spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said that we know Ricks been yachting in Europe so were happy to catch him up: his flunky candidates are still failing, his partys position on abortion is still unpopular, and his fellow Republicans are still openly complaining about his self-serving, failed leadership of the NRSC.