Florida Gov. Rick Scott is shooting down the notion that the Republican Party is not united behind Donald Trump.
“First off, the party is uniting, I can tell you in our state the party is uniting,” Scott told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Tuesday night from the floor of the Republican National Convention. “We’re going to make sure Donald Trump wins.”
Scott was responding to whether he is bothered by the no-show of Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the GOP convention, located in his own state — despite the fact he took a pledge to support the eventual nominee.
“Everybody’s got their reasons,” Scott continued. “I want to unite the party. I do not want Hillary Clinton as my president. She’s not going to help me any more than Barack Obama’s helped.”
Scott added that he wants nothing more than “Donald Trump to be my president.”
“I want this business person that’s going to destroy ISIS and make America great again,” Scott said.
President Obama won Florida, a key swing state, with 50 percent of the vote in 2012, to Mitt Romney’s 49.1 percent. The Sunshine State awards 29 electoral college votes.
Scott went on to say that despite previous opposition to the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, it is now the law. And the GOP needs to acknowledge that.
“We need to figure out how to come together as a country and include the Republican Party,” Scott said. “We all need to come together … it’s the law of the land.”
Florida is still reeling from a deadly mass shooting last month at an LGBT night club in Orlando that killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others.
The shooting attacked “our gay community, attacked our Hispanic community,” Scott said.
