Rick Scott RNC speech extols Donald Trump, describes Joe Biden ‘nightmare’

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The Senator's brief remarks included a meditation on time travel.

Florida’s junior Senator was greeted by people chanting his name at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where U.S. Sen. Rick Scott offered an aggressively pro-Donald Trump speech.

“Well, the Democrats couldn’t stop him. The media couldn’t stop him. The liberal Judges couldn’t stop him. A bullet couldn’t stop him. Can anything stop Donald Trump from becoming the next President and making America great again,” Scott asked rhetorically, eliciting a loud “no” response from the crowd.

Scott noted he knew Trump before either entered politics, and that Trump should be in the White House “every day going forward,” before telling his own autobiography as an example of the American Dream fulfilled.

As a USA chant broke out, Scott said “we will win,” before describing a “dream” of “time-traveling” into a world where Joe Biden got re-elected.

He got to see “the ghost of Biden’s future,” and realized it was no dream, but a “nightmare,” where “Mexican cartels got frequent flyer miles” and elections were “rigged because they got so many non-citizens to vote.”

Scott condemned the “old, evil idea” of “socialism” embodied by Democrats, promising that no such thing would happen under Trump.

He lauded Trump for showing “courage” after he was shot, urging those on hand to “fight, fight, fight” and “make sure Trump gets re-elected.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


30 comments

  • Ocean Joe

    July 16, 2024 at 8:18 pm

    Medicare is socialism, so I guess Scott made lemonade out of lemons.

  • ScienceBLVR

    July 16, 2024 at 8:56 pm

    Florida’s junior Senator was greeted by people chanting his name Tuesday night…
    Chanting Rick’s name?
    Sorry, kids, it’s worse than we thought.

    • Not Woke

      July 16, 2024 at 9:13 pm

      So you were watching? There is hope for you after all.🤣

      • Ocean Joe

        July 17, 2024 at 10:37 am

        I liked the big guy with his dog. He claims he’s never said anything dishonest. So why is he sharing a stage with Trump?

  • Flash Light

    July 16, 2024 at 9:22 pm

    Can anything stop Dandy Don from being elected, Rick? Yes. A few million women can in all the swing states. You know, all the ones JD Vance called “childless cat ladies.”

    • MH/Duuuval

      July 17, 2024 at 9:48 am

      “The Lever” blog reports today that Vance supports giving law enforcement the tools and the license to track down women who leave red states and go to blue states to terminate a pregnancy. (Presumably the enablers will be subject to prosecution.)

      • Impeach Biden

        July 17, 2024 at 10:05 am

        Is that what Joy Behar and Whoopi told you on The View?

        • MH/Duuuval

          July 17, 2024 at 1:20 pm

          You show a striking familiarity with daytime women’s TV.

          That aside, why don’t you respond to the comment and repeat how you support women?

          And you never miss an opportunity to demean women of color.

        • rick whitaker

          July 18, 2024 at 3:57 pm

          howler monkey, yeah, joy behar and whoopi could teach you a lot, if you had the ability to listen. you do listen, but to negativity, not positivity. like a misplaced magnet, you need to flip your poles around.

  • My Take

    July 16, 2024 at 9:37 pm

    What kind of person is actually fooled by Sick Rott?

    • So Who is the Fool

      July 17, 2024 at 10:25 am

      Well how about enough people that made him a two term Governor of Florida. Enough that elected him to his second term as. a US Senator. That’s twenty four years of service. He might even run for a third US senate term.

      • Ocean Joe

        July 17, 2024 at 10:39 am

        They weren’t fooled. They willingly voted for a scoundrel because he had an R next to his name. It’s a numbers issue, just like it was when he ran HCA.

        • Impeach Biden

          July 17, 2024 at 10:49 am

          Just like District 25 in the People’s Republic of Broward County. Those busses from Century Village, Kings Point, Sunrise Lakes and such are looking for two things on the ballot.

      • MH/Duuuval

        July 17, 2024 at 1:31 pm

        2 terms governor = 8
        1 term Senate = 6

        Total = 14, not 24

        Trick has yet to win office by a large margin and can be beat in Nov.

  • Not Woke

    July 16, 2024 at 9:50 pm

    Great speech by our outstanding Governor this evening. Rocking the house in prime time. So much young talent in the Republican Party.

    • rick whitaker

      July 20, 2024 at 9:34 am

      not woke, quit lying. desantis is a punk. good pickpockets also have talent. scott is a good thief so i guess has a talent too. talent at screwing over the country, is not a talent in my book. i’m a demo so i don’t think like you. i’m woke, you aren’t, sorry about that, but it is by choice on your part. woke is good, un woke is bad. now you have been told, so i can’t help you.

  • Phil Morton

    July 16, 2024 at 9:54 pm

    Meanwhile the Stock Market hit new record highs today and unemployment remains at historic lows. Nightmare my ass.

  • Ed Slavin

    July 17, 2024 at 8:46 am

    That’s too bad that Trump’s head is still attached.

  • Ocean Joe

    July 17, 2024 at 8:46 am

    He didnt seem to hate socialism so much back when he was working over Medicare.

  • David Pakman

    July 17, 2024 at 9:06 am

    Hopefully the Iranians get a hold of Trump over Qasem Soleimani and afterwards we can really move forward in unity. The kid blew it in Pennsylvania. Now we have to endure Orange Hilter until his other court cases happen.

    • Not Woke

      July 17, 2024 at 10:30 am

      If Trump gets elected he will handle the Iranians. You see some people / countries only understand toughness. The bad guys love sleepy Joe. They come out after 8 pm and invade, bomb, destroy, and rape. They are done before Joe crawls out of bed. Remember the MOAB that Trump delivered to the mountains of Afghanistan? Not a
      peep out of the terrorists for four years. Now we have terrorists gone wild under the regime of Sleepy Joe.

      • Ocean Joe

        July 17, 2024 at 10:51 am

        Maybe invading Iraq and destabilizing the entire middle east wasn’t such a great Republican idea after all. But hey, Trump can send the Ayatollah to nirvana and keep the ball rolling.

        • Not Woke

          July 17, 2024 at 11:01 am

          You’ll get no argument from me on Iraq or Afghanistan. I was in complete favor of destroying their terrorist infrastructure. That’s it.

      • MH/Duuuval

        July 17, 2024 at 10:08 pm

        The Mother Of All (non-nuclear) Bombs was dropped in 2017. In 2020 Trump signed a peace treaty with the Taliban: The United States was to get out of Afghanistan in April 2021 and, in exchange, the Taliban agreed to stop attacking U.S. service members.

        BTW: The Taliban kept their part of the deal.

      • rick whitaker

        July 18, 2024 at 4:05 pm

        not woke, what about the next 20 year old untrained punk with an ar-15. moab can’t stop that. trump is weak, not tough. tough or strong people don’t lie with every word.

    • Ocean Joe

      July 17, 2024 at 10:45 am

      I’m shocked your comment got through. I wondered if the entirely self-absorbed Donald might take a near death experience and ponder acting presidential instead always playing drunk uncle at the barbque. No such luck. Most would sober up, he will not.
      The question is if he gets elected, can E Jean Carroll garnish his wages as president?

      • Impeach Biden

        July 17, 2024 at 10:52 am

        Well he didn’t draw a salary as president last time so……….

      • Not Woke

        July 17, 2024 at 10:58 am

        Well Trump did not draw a salary as President last time so…………

        • Michael K

          July 17, 2024 at 11:34 am

          He most certainly did draw a salary. It’s required by law.
          He claims to have donated it. But it’s unclear. His 2020 tax return, for example, shows no charitable donations.

          • MH/Duuuval

            July 17, 2024 at 1:32 pm

            Trump’s last charitable purchase was a full-length painted portrait of himself.

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