Audience Erupts Into Boos As Rick Scott Lays Into McConnell For Conceding To Schumer & Dems

6 months ago

During a Turning Point Action convention over the weekend, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) slammed Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for working with Democrats.

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00:00So here's the deal. We said, oh yeah, it's all because Democrats are in charge. And they are.

00:06They've got the White House. They've got the Senate. They've had the House.

00:12But guess what? Our problem is we have Washington insiders in leadership that have gone along with Chuck Schumer.

00:20It's 60 votes. We have Republicans in the Senate that are taking Democrats for all sorts of horrible bills.

00:28Now, remember this so-called infrastructure bill that was a Green New Deal? That required Republican votes.

00:36Guess who gave it to them? Mitch McConnell.

00:43Mitch McConnell gets to Chuck Schumer and says, how many votes do you need? And Mitch McConnell shows up with them.

00:50And now we have Green New Deal junk that's killing fossil fuels and causing oil prices and gas prices to go up all across the country.

01:00There's an anti-China bill. They gave billions of dollars to the Intel Corporation to build a pipe they were already going to build.

01:08It couldn't have been done without Mitch McConnell and some other insiders who gave them the votes.

01:13We've got anti-gun bills that pretend to protect us. We've got money for it.

01:18Money for Ukrainian politicians. We're paying the Ukrainian politicians salaries. That's how we're going to beat Putin.

01:24It's just crazy what's going on. But every time Mitch McConnell teams up with a few Republicans and gives the Democrats the votes they need.

01:33So at the end of the 22 cycle, I decided to run against McConnell.

01:47I announced on the Tuesday, the week after the 22 election, the election is supposed to be in January for the leadership.

01:53Guess what? It was the next day. That couldn't happen in America, right?

01:59So I was not able to win, but we're changing the Senate. And I'm running again. Mitch McConnell has decided to step down.

02:05So there will be a leadership race and we are going to win.

02:17What could we get done? What could we get done if we had a conservative leader in the Senate?

02:24Because here's the way the Senate works. Whoever is the leader of the Senate, if we get a majority in the Senate and we can win, we decide what we vote on.

02:33There would never be no Green New Deals. We won't be attacking fossil fuel. We won't work our butts off to balance the budget.

02:42We won't have a woke military. None of these things will ever be voted on because the majority of the Senate gets to decide what we vote on.

02:51So would that be better?

Audience Erupts Into Boos As Rick Scott Lays Into McConnell For Conceding To Schumer & Dems

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