Elections The (2024) Presidential Race Florida Is Really Talking About

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Found this a good read. Though the headline is about 2024, it goes into:
-Intra-party feud between former Governor/now Junior Senator Rick Scott and current Governor Ron DeSantis
-The paths the three prominent members of the state (Scott, DeSantis, and Rubio) may be seeking, with possibly all three fighting for positioning in 2024
-Their relations (on and off) with the Trump circle
-The change, for better or worse, to their branding with the COVID-19 crisis

The Presidential Race Florida Is Really Talking About
Politco

In August 2018, then-Governor Rick Scott threw what appeared to be a lifeline to the man who desperately wanted to be his successor. Adam Putnam, the baby-faced scion of political and citrus royalty, was the establishment choice going into the GOP primary, but he was struggling to shake an upstart congressman who had made a name for himself on Fox News defending the president in the Russia probe. To have Scott standing beside him for a photo—both men in light blue, button-down shirts, sleeves rolled up in classic Florida-pol style—was the kind of last-minute endorsement that he hoped might salvage his candidacy.

Putnam didn’t know it, most people covering the event didn’t either, but that appearance at a warehouse in the I-4 corridor just outside of Orlando wasn’t really about Putnam and his bid for governor. Indeed, when asked by reporters Scott denied what looked exactly like a political endorsement was an actual endorsement. Scott’s objective, say people close to the former governor, was, at least in part, more strategic and long-term. He was delivering a brush back to Putnam’s opponent Rep. Ron DeSantis, a man 26 years his junior whom Scott’s political team already suspected had national ambitions equal to his own. Scott to this day publicly denies there were underlying motivations, but there is one person who saw them clearly: DeSantis.

 

[Queen B]

Quite sad when Little Marco actually looks qualified when compared to DeStantis and Scott

 

[Fluffernutter]

Quite sad when Little Marco actually looks qualified when compared to DeStantis and Scott

Has he paid off his college loans yet?

 

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Has he paid off his college loans yet?

Looks like that was around 2011. He's not a young guy anymore. The political landscape is just full of so many boomers that a 48 year old seems very young. I suppose to be US Senator for 9 years at that point is pretty surprising too though.

The politico article suggest he may be the least interested in 2024 with how he's currently pursuing (or not pursuing) donors for that type of bid. I think he sees other options to rise in the Senate and possibly hope for a cabinet position at some point in time.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Rick Scott should be in prison

 

[Trotsky]

God, name a more despicable, irredeemable trio of dildos.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

God, name a more despicable, irredeemable trio of dildos.

Paul Ryan, James Inhofe, Scott Walker

 

[And Erson Ilva]

In fairness, can you even become governor of somewhere like Florida and have aspirations to be a big name republican WITHOUT being an irredeemable fuckface? Seems like that’s more of a necessary quality than actual part-specific policy.

 

[jrams]

God, name a more despicable, irredeemable trio of dildos.