Florida governor Rick Scott told reporters Tuesday that he wouldn’t rule out a run for Senate in 2018, the year voters will choose his successor on account of his being term-limited.
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Scott knocked off Republican-turned independent-turned Democrat Charlie Crist in the state’s 2014 gubernatorial race to win his second consecutive stint in office. Were the Republican to run for Senate, he’d likely be doing so to join Crist, who was elected to the U.S. House last week, on the opposite side of the Capitol.
His general election opponent would probably be Democrat Bill Nelson, who was elected 16 years ago—setting up a high-profile matchup that would shoot to the top of prominent showdowns for the midterm elections.
Scott was rumored to be a Donald Trump supporter in the lead-up to his state’s March 15 GOP presidential primary, despite the candidacy of Florida senator Marco Rubio. But he announced in a Facebook post prior to the contest that he wouldn’t “try to tell the Republican voters in Florida how to vote by endorsing a candidate” beforehand.
