Rick Scott announces plan to unseat Mitch McConnell as the top Republican in the Senate - Fox News

Sen. Rick Scott is moving to unseat Minority Leader Mitch McConnell arsenic the apical Republican successful the Senate, helium announced successful a enactment to GOP colleagues Tuesday archetypal obtained by Fox News Digital. 

Scott, R-Fla., the president of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has been astatine likelihood with McConnell. R-Ky., for astir of this twelvemonth implicit governmental strategy. Scott is besides much intimately aligned with former President Donald Trump, who has called for McConnell to beryllium removed arsenic Senate Republican leader. 

Scott repeatedly declined to regularisation retired challenging McConnell successful caller months, but didn't corroborate his intentions until Tuesday during a closed-door GOP lunch.

"I’m penning to you contiguous due to the fact that I judge it’s clip for the Senate Republican Conference to beryllium acold much bold and resolute than we person been successful the past. We indispensable commencement saying what we are for, not conscionable what we are against," Scott said successful a missive to GOP colleagues. "I bash not judge we tin simply proceed to accidental the Democrats are radical, which they are. Republican voters expect and merit to cognize our program to beforehand and beforehand blimpish values. "

Scott added: "For those who privation to get superior astir ending reckless authorities spending and the devastating ostentation it has caused, yet instrumentality enactment to support Social Security and Medicare and sphere the committedness of these programs for our children and grandchildren, clasp authorities accountable from the FBI to the IRS, genuinely combat the utmost information posed by Communist China and refocus our subject connected lethal defence alternatively of woke nonsense, I inquire for your enactment successful changing the absorption of the Senate and rescuing America from the unsafe way Democrats person acceptable it on."

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., was astatine likelihood with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., implicit governmental strategy for astir of this year.  (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital)

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Senate Republicans are acceptable to clasp their enactment elections Wednesday greeting successful the Old Senate Chamber. 

If McConnell wins re-election to his post, helium would go the longest-serving enactment person successful the history of the Senate.

After disappointing elections for Republicans successful which they failed to instrumentality the bulk from Democrats, Scott has been 1 of the loudest voices calling for Senate enactment elections to beryllium delayed recently. 

I recognize that I won’t summation the enactment of each subordinate of our Conference, but we each person a wide prime to make. If you simply privation to instrumentality with the presumption quo, don’t ballot for me.

"The leadership successful the Republican Senate says, ‘No, you cannot person a plan, we’re conscionable going to tally against however atrocious the Democrats are.' And really past they cave into the Democrats," Scott said connected "Sunday Morning Futures." "Now they privation to unreserved done an election. … They don't privation to bash immoderate appraisal of what we've done wrong."

Scott besides straight addressed Republicans' lackluster midterm show successful his missive to senators. 

"Like each of you, I americium profoundly disappointed by the results of the caller election," Scott said. "Despite what the armchair quarterbacks connected TV volition archer you, determination is nary 1 idiosyncratic liable for our party’s show crossed the country. I cognize determination is nary shortage of radical who are anxious to constituent fingers and delegate blasted present successful Washington, but I won’t beryllium 1 of them."

He besides laid retired what helium said are complaints from GOP senators astir however the league is run, including having "no backbone"; making "deals with Chuck Schumer that a bulk of our Conference members disagree with"; pressuring members to ballot for definite bills; and more. Scott said helium would beryllium the campaigner to alteration that. 

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"I recognize that I won’t summation the enactment of each subordinate of our Conference, but we each person a wide prime to make," Scott wrote. "If you simply privation to instrumentality with the presumption quo, don’t ballot for me."

Scott, however, apt faces an uphill conflict to triumph the GOP person post, according to respective Republican senators who spoke to Fox News Digital this week. 

"I don't truly spot that close now," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said erstwhile asked if anyone, including Scott, could bushed McConnell.