{"id":1631167,"date":"2022-09-02T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631167"},"modified":"2022-09-02T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:04:16","slug":"sen-rick-scott-decries-treasonous-republicans-for-trash-talking-gop-senate-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rick-scott-decries-treasonous-republicans-for-trash-talking-gop-senate-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rick Scott Decries \u2018Treasonous\u2019 Republicans for \u2018Trash Talking\u2019 GOP Senate Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-rick-scott-decries-treasonous-republicans-for-trash-talking-gop-senate-candidates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), took a jab at \u201ctreasonous\u201d Republicans for \u201ctrash talking\u201d GOP Senate candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The statement seemed to be in part a response to comments from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-senate-minority-leader-mitch-mcconnell\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-Ky.), who has suggested that \u201ccandidate quality\u201d may prevent Republicans from retaking the majority in the upper chamber. Scott and McConnell have feuded on several occasions in the past over election strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Scott wrote his scathing critique in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/washington-versus-republican-voters\">op-ed<\/a> for the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, many of the very people responsible for losing the Senate last cycle are now trying to stop us from winning the majority this time by trash-talking our Republican candidates,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing act of cowardice, and ultimately, it\u2019s treasonous to the conservative cause. Giving anonymous quotes to help the Washington Post or the New York Times write stories trashing Republicans is the same as working with the Democratic National Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about midterms while in his home state of Kentucky last week, McConnell said,\u00a0\u201cI think there\u2019s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different, they\u2019re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Downplaying the party\u2019s chances is \u201cnot what leaders do,\u201d Scott wrote. \u201cAnd Republicans need to be leaders that build up the team and do everything they can to get the entire team over the finish line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott did not explicitly name McConnell in the op-ed, but the two lawmakers have clashed in the past over election strategy.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Scott proposed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/?p=4294765&amp;preview=true\">11-point plan<\/a>\u00a0for Republicans to pursue if they take back the Senate in November.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the proposals in the plan, including a demand that all federal legislation must \u201csunset\u201d and receive a new vote after five years, drew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), took a jab at \u201ctreasonous\u201d Republicans for \u201ctrash talking\u201d GOP Senate candidates. The statement seemed to be in part a response to comments from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has suggested that \u201ccandidate quality\u201d may prevent Republicans from retaking the majority [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}