Rick Scott considerably improves margin of victory from 2018

Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott considerably advanced his margin of victory in 2024, in comparison to his razor-thin victory in 2018, when he first joined the Senate. 

Scott defeated Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell via 12.76%, the Fox Information Choice Table projected Tuesday. Scott registered a slim 0.2% margin of victory in 2016, when he beat Democratic incumbent Invoice Nelson to secured Florida’s senatorial delegation nearest serving because the shape’s governor for a number of years. 

Along with operating for re-election, Scott has additionally been within the operating to move the Senate nearest the proceed of Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell. Scott will face alternative GOP contributors vying for the task, together with Senate Minority Pluck John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. 

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Previous to becoming a member of Congress, Scott used to be the Sunshine Surrounding’s forty fifth governor, an place of business he held from 2011-2018.

Scott’s wider than anticipated margin of victory comes nearest Democrats within the shape had was hoping this election may well be a probability for the Democratic Birthday party to turn his seat.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks at a marketing campaign attend to celebration on election evening Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Bonita Springs, Fla.  (Related Press)

“[Floridians] are so ready to retire [Scott] and send someone that’s going to work for them in the U.S. Senate,” Mucarsel-Powell stated all over her marketing campaign, consistent with The Day-to-day Beast. 

“Rick Scott is the most wounded bird of all the birds,” influential Florida Democratic donor John Morgan instructed The Day-to-day Beast previous this future. Nationwide Democrats, in the meantime, insisted Scott’s Senate seat used to be “in play,” Politico reported.

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Mucarsel-Powell and Scott raised indistinguishable conflict chests, consistent with FEC information, however Scott did elevate a couple of million greater than his Democratic challenger. Scott, then again, had a self-funding merit, giving his marketing campaign no less than $24.5 million. Mucarsel-Powell reportedly raised greater than Scott in donations lonely.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., arrives along with his spouse, Ann, at a marketing campaign attend to celebration on election evening Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Bonita Springs, Fla.  (Related Press)

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“Our work is not done. Next week, we have another election — Senate Republican leader,” Scott said during his victory rally Tuesday night. “We need the Republican Party to start solving the problems of this country, and we have a significant number of problems. Florida is the center of the Republican Party of this country. Washington could learn a hell of a lot from what we’ve done here in this great state.”