Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has won and lost friends. He’s made fans and enemies. He’s influenced people into either loving him, hating him, or in some cases, loving to hate him.
Through it all, Scott has won and lost friends. He’s made fans and enemies. He’s influenced people into either loving him, hating him, or in some cases, loving to hate him.
From his admirers to his critics to his colleagues, however, Scott’s provocative moves have left them wondering what, exactly, he is doing. Of course, this is far from a universal opinion in the party. A senior Republican aide dryly noted Scott’s love of—a book that today seems like it could have been written by ChatGPT, with advice like “be a good listener” and to repetitively use people’s names. The aide noted that Scott’s reliance on the book’s purported wisdom “shows how much this stuff does not come naturally to him.”
The broader question looming over Scott’s place at the center of attention in Washington is what he intends to do with it. When asked about his challenge to the longtime leader, Scott framed it more as a referendum on the Senate GOP’s values, not on him specifically. Two weeks later, Scott, then the chairman of the Senate GOP’s official campaign arm, published his plan, which contained no small level of snark for Republican leaders who wanted to return to “Washington’s business as usual.”
“I remember reading it in Playbook and thinking, we have gold,” they said. “I don’t understand it, and I couldn’t have drawn it up in a lab if I tried.” Amid the furor from both sides, Scott did back down on one thing: he removed his proposal to increase taxes on half the U.S. population. But he stuck to his proposal on sunsetting all federal programs—much to the delight of Democrats—arguing that Congress needed to force a serious debate on the long-term viability of Social Security and Medicare.
Today, opinions in the GOP still diverge over whether Scott’s unpopular proposals meaningfully harmed GOP candidates or whether they merely were not helpful.
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