RICK SCOTT

An update to our rankings of the 10 people most likely to be the next GOP nominee — with a new Republican sending a pretty strong signal of intent.

Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Scott hosted a roundtable Monday in Jacksonville that was focused on education. It’s part of a tour through Florida that his team calls “Make Washington Work.”

Biden and DeSantis earn their spots among 2022’s top political winners and losers, while Sen.-elect Fetterman, Gov. Whitmer are Democratic rising stars.

The Senate Appropriations Committee, under Patrick Leahy and Richard Shelby, released its 5,000-page omnibus spending bill, to the chagrin of conservatives and many House Republicans

Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.

Sen. Rick Scott is urging Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans to respect the incoming House GOP majority and block a yearlong budget deal.

It's that time of year again, when Congress tends to rush to fund the government. This year, two major spending bills are hitting snags with the clock ticking.

Sen. Chuck Schumer has been elected for another term as Democratic leader in the Senate.

Sen. Chuck Schumer has been elected for another term as Democratic leader in the Senate.

Donald Trump arrived in Washington with a hodgepodge of ideas developed over decades in business and television that were far outside the Republican mainstream.

“Over the last year, I’ve gotten to know Herschel and have seen first-hand the movement he built in his home state,” NRSC chairman Rick Scott said in a statement.

Ron DeSantis’s shifting political brand shows how he could win in ’24

Republicans say their party leaders should stand up to Democrats on key issues like vaccine mandates for military members.

When President Joe Biden speaks about the “scourge” of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on semi-automatic weapons.

When President Joe Biden speaks about the “scourge” of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on so-called assault weapons. America has heard it hundreds of times, including this week after shootings in Colorado and Virginia: The president wants to sign into law a ban on high-powered guns that have the capacity to kill many people very quickly. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.”

Republicans are engaged in a round of finger-pointing as both parties sift through the results of Democrats’ stronger-than-expected showing in the midterm elections.

Trailing badly in his Arizona Senate race as votes poured in, Republican Blake Masters went on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program and assigned blame to one person: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Masters not only lost his race against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.

Republican presidential prospects are courting anxious donors and activists in Las Vegas , as the GOP's early 2024 class warns that former President Donald Trump is “a loser” and the party needs to turn elsewhere.

Sen. Steve Daines, Rep. Richard Hudson and Gov. Kim Reynolds were all voted in as GOP committee chairs, just days after Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives.

Senate Republicans chose Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to continue serving as party leader Wednesday after a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott.

Donald Trump's chosen candidates lost in several key spots for Republican leadership positions this week, dealing the ex-president another blow.

The Senate Republican leader faces some emboldened critics within his caucus as some of his closest allies retire.

Sen. Mitch McConnell is poised to become the longest-serving leader when the new Congress convenes in the new year.

Sen. Rick Scott launched an uphill bid to be minority leader. Sen. Mitch McConnell was handily reelected but many rank-and-file senators are frustrated at party leaders following the 2022 elections.

The leadership fight exposed divisions within a party still reeling from a disappointing showing in the midterm elections.

Sen. Rick Scott announced a run against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for the top spot in the Republican conference at a Tuesday afternoon meeting.

The longtime party leader fended off a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), a Trump ally who led a conservative effort to unseat him.

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has been reelected as Republican leader, quashing a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott of Florida.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Tuesday evening he will introduce a motion to delay the contested Senate GOP leadership elections until after the Georgia runoff.

House Republicans moved forward Tuesday with their leadership elections, despite calls from several GOP lawmakers and dozens of conservatives outside Congress to postpone the vote.

House Republicans nominated Representative Kevin McCarthy to be the next House Speaker should their party win control. In the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing a challenge from Florida Senator Rick Scott. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane joins "Red and Blue" to break it all down.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott is mounting a long-shot bid to unseat Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

"The status quo is broken and big change is needed," Scott said.

Sen. Rick Scott told his GOP colleagues he will be running to unseat Mitch McConnell ahead of the party's leadership election, after a lackluster performance in the midterm elections last week.

Senate Republicans are mulling who will lead them into 2024, amid their disappointing midterm elections.

Top House and Senate GOP leaders are in for a long week amid discontent from their right flanks and former President Trump's Tuesday "announcement."

The win by Sen Catherine Cortez Masto over GOP challenger Adam Laxalt means Democrats have at least a 50-50 Senate, allowing Democrats to confirm President Biden's nominees.

"I think we've got to reflect now. What didn't happen?" Scott said on Friday while on Fox News. "I think we didn't have enough of a positive message."

Trump's poor political decisions keep piling up, weakening his grip on the 2024 nomination even as he prepares to announce a campaign.

After Democrats kept a crucial U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, with Sen. Mark Kelly defeating Republican Blake Masters, Trump scolded Mitch McConnell for not doing enough.

Republicans in the Senate won't delay their leadership elections despite calls to do so on Friday from several conservative members of the conference.

Four former FBI and DOJ officials told Insider Trump's claims were almost certainly false, with one calling them "complete nonsense."

Four former FBI and DOJ officials told Insider Trump's claims were almost certainly false, with one calling them "complete nonsense."

Republicans are calling for a delay in next week's Senate leadership elections, a direct challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell's stewardship and a reflection of the growing fallout over the GOP's disappointing performance in the midterms.

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Friday called for the Senate GOP’s leadership elections to be postponed a day after news emerged that Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) had been considering a long-shot bid to replace Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) atop the conference. “The Senate GOP leadership vote next week should…

The former president made a remarkable claim on his social network — a claim that's almost certainly false.

Republican workhorses, such as Florida Sen. Rick Scott, won by showing leadership on key issues. Scott’s plan offered over 100 specific policy proposals.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri blamed compromises on insulin caps, gun control and infrastructure spending for the GOP's mixed Election Day results.

The midterms looked like a GOP lock. But Republicans' historic tail winds collided with the fractious reality of a party in the midst of a generational molting.

Republicans are 1) slowing vote-counting and 2) suggesting that slow vote counts are suspicious.

NRSC Chairman Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wouldn't say on NBC News’ "Meet the Press" whether he would support a third presidential run by former President Donald Trump.

Here are some of the most pressing personal finance issues for the midterm elections — and how Tuesday's results may affect your wallet.

This is a job for professionals.

Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have said the midterm election may shape two government programs retirees rely on, Social Security and Medicare.

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Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suggested voters were unaware of the real threats against them this upcoming midterm election season.

President Biden visits Florida for a rally for gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist and Senate hopeful Val Demings.

Tuesday marks one week until Election Day when a third of the Senate, all 435 members of the House of Representatives, and governors’ offices in 36 of 50 states are up for grabs.

Republicans are increasingly confident in Senate candidates who party leaders had once believed were essentially unelectable or at least seriously flawed.

Some law makers are blaming the GOP for not doing enough to quash extreme rhetoric within the party.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has issued an executive order expanding voting access for the midterm elections in three counties where Hurricane Ian destroyed polling places and displaced thousands of people.

Two U.S. senators, Rick Scott of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, are boosting the campaign of Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.

President Joe Biden has surveyed the devastation of hurricane-ravaged Florida, promising to marshal the power of the federal government to help rebuild.

As authorities in Florida try to reach people who have been trapped by floodwaters or isolated on barrier islands since Hurricane Ian came ashore last week, concerned members of the public have been springing into action to aid the official rescue efforts.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said in his first debate against Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke that Texas would send busloads of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to more cities.

Pete Antonacci, appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis as the head of Florida's new Office of Election Crimes and Security has died of a heart attack.

Prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against three nurses who were present when 12 Florida nursing home patients suffered fatal overheating five years ago after Hurricane Irma.

The great red wave is looming.

A Holocaust center in Florida and others condemned the presence of protesters holding Nazi flags and posters with antisemitic imagery outside a convention of young conservative activists that drew as speakers President Donald Trump, Florida Gov, Ron DeSantis and several Republican U.S. senators.

The first major legislation on gun safety sailed through congress and was sent to President Joe Biden on the day marking one month since the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial nominee Joe Cunningham is proposing an age limit — 72 — for state politicians.

Republican Sen_ Rick Scott of Florida is criticizing the Texas GOP's new party platform for not being “inclusive” when it described homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice.”.

Angered by the unrelenting toll from gun violence, tens of thousands of people are expected at rallies this weekend in the nation’s capital and around the United States demanding that Congress pass meaningful changes to gun laws.

The mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, are again putting the focus on gun control measures such as waiting periods to buy firearms.

News4JAX looks back at how Florida governors have handled sheriff appointments in the recent past.

The gunmen in two of the nation’s most recent mass shootings legally bought the semi-automatic rifles they used in their massacres after they turned 18.

President Joe Biden is warning voters unhappy with soaring inflation and his stalled domestic agenda against turning power over to “ultra-MAGA” Republicans in the midterm elections.

Florida Supreme Court Justice Alan Lawson will retire at the end of August.

Women will have to wait 24 hours before getting an abortion under a ruling by a Florida judge in a nearly seven-year battle over the waiting period.

Mike Gibbons, a leading Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, said at a media event last fall that middle-class Americans don’t pay “any kind of a fair share” of income taxes.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott is barely halfway through his first term, but he's already leaning into a fight against his own party’s leadership.

The Senate has unanimously approved a measure that would make daylight saving time permanent next year.

Ten years ago when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot, Florida was one of the few states with “stand your ground” laws that eased use of deadly force in the face of danger.

Trayvon Martin was visiting his father in Sanford, Florida, when the 17-year-old Black teen was fatally shot Feb. 26, 2012, during a confrontation with George Zimmerman.

Two widely supported bills are encountering delays in the Senate.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other leading Republicans are intensifying a personal late-stage push to persuade Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to run for the Senate.

There's a renewed push to improve public housing in the Sunshine State.

President Joe Biden’s pick to run the nation’s highway safety agency is pledging to attack a crisis of fatal car crashes by implementing safety rules to deter impaired driving.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, is demanding answers from the U.S. attorney general and the Department of Homeland Security about flights carrying migrants into and through Jacksonville.

Count Gov. Ron DeSantis among homeowners with seller’s regret.

Critical race theory has become a lightning rod for Republicans and an issue in the Virginia governor's race.

President Joe Biden says he remains confident he will overcome opposition and get his “Build Back Better” plan moving forward.

Groups seeking stricter gun-control laws frequently have clashed with Republican leaders in Florida, a testing ground for National Rifle Association-backed legislation.

Former President Donald Trump struggled during his first year in office to get his nominees confirmed in a timely fashion in the Senate.

Pahokee Marina’s stubborn blue-green algae infection flared again early this month, defying four nanobubble-blowing machines targeting the recurrent toxins with high-octane oxygen.

A Florida judge has ruled the state cannot enforce its ban on mask mandates in public schools to guard against the coronavirus while an appeals court sorts out whether the ban is ultimately legal.

Dr. Sunil Joshi, president of the Duval County Medical Society Foundation, discusses the rise in coronavirus cases and the increase in hospitalizations. We also discuss the crisis in Cuba with Congressman Al Lawson, D-Tallahassee, and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, offer their analysis on Cuba as well as the American Rescue Plan and new child tax credits.

Less than a week into major demonstrations concerning Cuba some changes are already underway.

A federal judge has upheld Florida’s law prohibiting the sale of firearms to anyone under the age of 21.

Congressional bargainers say they’ve agreed to a bipartisan framework for overhauling policing procedures.