Florida governor Rick Scott wrote in a Thursday Facebook post that he won’t be endorsing “a Republican candidate” before his state’s primary election on March 15th.
There had been speculation that Scott would endorse New York businessman Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, particularly leading up to a press event Trump staged at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach the night of Super Tuesday.
“I trust the voters, so I will not try to tell the Republican voters in Florida how to vote by endorsing a candidate before our primary on March 15. I believed in the voters when I first ran for office, and I still believe in them today,” Scott wrote.
His full post is below.
I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters’…Posted by Rick Scott on Thursday, March 3, 2016
— https://www.facebook.com/scottforflorida/posts/1161064863917966
