Scott will be the first of several speakers with connections to Florida as the state plays a starring role at the convention Wednesday, an appropriate role for the nation’s most prominent swing state.
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Numerous state’s 99 delegates once supported Senator Marco Rubio for President.
Rick Scott spoke to the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Wednesday night.
Rubio’s video drew cheers while another defeated Trump rival, Texas U.S. Sen. One is the promotion of official nominee Donald Trump, but another is certainly the unofficial non-indictment of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Local delegates understood the importance of Pence’s speech as well as his selection as running mate. An NBC-WSJ-Marist poll conducted from July 7-10 found Trump behind Clinton by seven points in the Sunshine State. Later, it was discovered that Trump made a large donation to her reelection campaign. So both major parties will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to persuade voters in six to 10 battleground states, and Florida is the mother of them all with 29 electoral votes. While Darrell Scott was busy trying to convince convention-goers that “we are here as Americans, regardless of” race, creed and color, black social media users begged to differ.
Wheb asked about the planks in the GOP platform addressing the LGBTQ community, Gov. Scott said he hadn’t seen it.
Scott started his speech by thanking the country for its support after the Pulse nightclub terror attack. He cited the tragedy as one of many examples of domestic terrorism across the country.
“This war is real, it is here in America, and the next president must destroy this evil”, he said, pausing for the resulting applause before continuing.
“But this election is not actually about Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton”, Scott said.
Bondi later took the stage, pointing toward the Sunshine State delegates and proudly proclaiming, “Florida, I love you”, before declaring November 8 will be “a day of reckoning for those who have abused their power”.
Four years ago when the Tampa Bay Times Forum housed the convention, the RNC punished the Florida GOP for scheduling its primary earlier than allowed.
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For those questioning whether Florida Senator Marco Rubio would ever fully fall behind Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, they may finally have their answer. “If you go to the issues that people care about, it’s jobs – it’s jobs, it’s jobs, it’s jobs”.
