Rick Scott told fellow GOP senators he will challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to be leader of the party in the chamber next year
Scott has little chance of succeeding but it’s seen as a protest vote – though it’s the first real challenger McConnell has faced in his time as GOP leader. Senate Republicans are expected to hold leadership elections on Wednesday. Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has had a long simmering conflict with McConnell for much of this year, differing on where to invest resources in the tightly contested midterm Senate races.
But Scott, the chairman of the GOP’s campaign arm, attempted to bolster candidates his allies say have been unfairly counted out by establishmentarians like McConnell. Following Republicans’ lackluster midterm performance, where Democrats are projected to keep their Senate majority and have the possibility of even increasing their margin by one seat, former President Donald Trump called up his allies in the chamber, GOP sources told CNN last week, to take aim at McConnell’s leadership bid.
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