He is leaning into more optimistic rhetoric than his conservative rivals.
by more than 20 percentage points. Such overwhelming support in a state that votes early in the GOP’s presidential nominating calendar bodes well for Scott’s electability on a larger scale, his advisers say.
It’s enough money, his team says, to keep Scott on the air with continuous TV ads in early voting states until the first round of votes next year. But Scott has pushed the party on some policing overhaul measures since the killing of George Floyd, and he has occasionally criticized Trump’s response to racial tensions. Throughout their disagreements, though, Scott has maintained a generally cordial relationship with Trump, saying in his book that the former president “listened intently” to his viewpoints on race-related issues.
“Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country,” Scott has said. “It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.”
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