Rick Scott gets his post-McConnell moment

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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) will return to a far more friendly Washington next year as two of his biggest enemies step aside in a historic transfer of power.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is retiring from leadership in January, ending an 18-year tenure that Scott has compared to a dictatorship. Scott will have a friendlier occupant in the White House, too. 

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