Sen. Rick Scott is running to unseat Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as the top Republican in the Senate, he announced in a note to GOP colleagues Tuesday first obtained by Fox News Digital.
"I have the votes," he said.
"Every Republican was attacked for his plan to cut Social Security and Medicare... Now he's doubling down. Nobody loves this more than Democrats," GOP strategist and McConnell alum John Ashbrook tweeted. "Nobody loves this more than Democrats." "The leadership in the Republican Senate says, ‘No, you cannot have a plan, we’re just going to run against how bad the Democrats are.' And actually then they cave into the Democrats," Scott said on "Sunday Morning Futures." "Now they want to rush through an election. … They don't want to do any assessment of what we've done wrong.""Like each of you, I am deeply disappointed by the results of the recent election," Scott said.
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