Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday predicted a “big win” by Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton in his state in the November general election.
The Republican, who endorsed Trump on Wednesday, also warned the Republican establishment not to get in the way of what GOP voters want.
“Oh, I think he’ll clearly beat Hillary Clinton. We don’t want four more years of Barack Obama,” Scott said in an interview with “Fox & Friends,” drawing similarities between himself and Trump as a businessman-turned-politician. “If you look, they’ve seen that a businessperson outsider can turn this state around. I think they’re very open to a businessperson outsider to turn our federal government around. So I think Donald Trump will have a big win in November in Florida.”
Scott added that he did “the right thing” by waiting until after Trump won the Florida primary to endorse him, because when he ran for governor in 2010, “all of the establishment told me to get out of the race, we would not win, we would hurt our chance to win later.”
“And what happened, we won, we had big majorities in the House and Senate. We’ve turned our state around. We’ve had tough primaries,” Scott added. “The voters have picked Donald Trump. It’s time to coalesce behind Donald Trump, because the issue is, we’ve got to win in November.”
Because Jeb Bush, a former governor, and Marco Rubio, a current senator, both lost and other candidates have dropped out, the time is now to “coalesce behind Donald Trump so we don’t have Hillary Clinton in November. We can’t keep having this Republican-on-Republican fighting. I want jobs. I know Donald Trump can focus on jobs like I’ve done down here and turn this economy around,” Scott said.
Rubio “worked really hard,” Scott said about the Sunshine State senator, but Trump “has done a great job of getting his message out.”
“The issue this year is jobs, just like my races in 2010 and 2014, it’s all about jobs,” Scott concluded. “People are ready for a big change in government.”
