{"id":1717977,"date":"2022-10-31T06:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717977"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:33:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:33:51","slug":"rick-scott-predicts-republicans-will-get-52-senate-seats-during-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rick-scott-predicts-republicans-will-get-52-senate-seats-during-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott Predicts Republicans Will Get 52 Senate Seats During Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Frick-scott-predicts-republicans-will-get-52-senate-seats-during-midterms%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=1717977&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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-rick-scott\">Rick Scott<\/a> (R-Fla.), the head of the\u00a0National Republican Senatorial Committee, predicted the GOP will take at least 52 seats in the upcoming midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna get 52 plus,\u201d Scott said in an interview Sunday on CNN.\u00a0\u201cHerschel Walker will win in Georgia, we\u2019re going to keep all 21 of ours. [Mehmet] Oz is going to win against [John] Fetterman in Pennsylvania. Adam Laxalt will win in Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott suggested Republican Blake Masters could also prevail against incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) for Arizona\u2019s Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our year, the Democrats can\u2019t run on anything they\u2019ve done,\u201d Scott told CNN. \u201cPeople don\u2019t like what they\u2019ve done. They don\u2019t like high inflation. They don\u2019t like gas prices, food prices up. They don\u2019t like it. The public doesn\u2019t like an open border. They don\u2019t like high crime. And that\u2019s what the Democrats are known for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate stands at 50\u201350, with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as a tiebreaker. In the House, Republicans need to gain a net five seats. Historically, the party that occupies the White House tends to lose seats in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>While numerous analysts, models, and polls have shown that Republicans will most likely take back the House in the midterms, the Senate picture is far murkier.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook\u00a0Political Report has races in Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania as \u201ctoss ups,\u201d while Colorado and New Hampshire are listed as \u201clean Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oddsmakers, however, favor Republicans to win back both the House and Senate. PredictIt, a major online betting firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictit.org\/markets\/17\/US-Elections\">lists<\/a> a GOP-controlled House and Senate as 73 cents for a share, as compared with 26 cents per share for Democrats. Winners get a dollar back per share.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Rude Awakening\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, Dr. Oz gained momentum following his debate with Democrat Lt. Gov John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke in May and displayed cognitive impairment during the event.\u00a0Fetterman often slurred his words, did not complete sentences, and had to use closed-captioning to understand what was being said to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Democrats are going to get a rude awakening on Nov. 8 that high inflation, high crime, open border is not what the American public wants,\u201d Scott also told ABC \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4829347\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/30\/GettyImages-1244305654-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4829347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1244305654-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4829347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1244305654-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> speaks at a campaign event for Georgia Democrats in College Park, Georgia on Oct. 28, 2022. (Elijah Nouvelage\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>A number of polls have shown that voters are increasingly worried about surging inflation, the state of the U.S. economy, and violent crime. Inflation and the economy has consistently ranked as the No. 1 issue for voters, offering a major roadblock for Democrats as they attempt to keep control of both chambers.<\/p>\n<p>It comes former President Barack Obama traveled to Georgia to attempt to bolster Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. In an event outside Atlanta, the 44th president said that the \u201cbasic foundation of our democracy\u201d is under threat and said voters should elect Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Obama will travel Saturday to Michigan and Wisconsin, followed by stops next week in Nevada and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>In Michigan, Obama will campaign in Detroit with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is being challenged by Republican Tudor Dixon, and in Wisconsin he\u2019ll be in Milwaukee with Senate candidate Mandela Barnes, who is trying to oust Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Each city is where the state\u2019s black population is most concentrated. Obama\u2019s Pennsylvania swing will include Philadelphia, another city where Democrats must get a strong turnout from black voters to win competitive races for Senate and governor.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), the head of the\u00a0National Republican Senatorial Committee, predicted the GOP will take at least 52 seats in the upcoming midterms.\u201cWe\u2019re gonna get 52 plus,\u201d Scott said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1717331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717977","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}