April 10, 2018 | By Daniel Molina

Rubio Asks Floridians to Support Scott in Senate Race

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced yesterday that he’ll be running against Democratic Senator Bill Nelson for Nelson’s seat. Democrats have been on the offensive since then. But, Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio took to twitter to voice his support for Governor Scott, but he’s also pointing out that he has a good working relationship with Senator Nelson and won’t be attacking him during the campaign season.

One of most important roles of senate is confirming federal judges & scotus. The road to growing the senate #GOP majority runs through #Florida Please join me in contributing to, voting for & supporting @ScottforFlorida #Sayfie

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) April 9, 2018

Talking to the Times/Herald about the race, Senator Rubio explained that “It has been the case historically that the party in power, particularly the one that has the White House lose seats. Whether times are different or not, we’ll see. The news cycles are very different now a days so the challenge for any Republican running in 2018 will be can you attract voters that may disapprove of the president but are willing to judge you for you and where you stand as opposed to their feelings for you.”

When asked if he would campaign with Governor Scott, he detailed that he won’t “campaign against Bill Nelson. Bill Nelson and I have a very good working relationship. I think come election time — he supported Patrick Murphy because he wanted his party to have more seats in the Senate. I’ll support the Republican nominee. If Rick Scott wins, it will be him. I think he’ll do a good job as a senator. It’s not an indictment on Bill. I couldn’t ask for a better partner, especially from the other party, but come election time I want my party to win, just like he wants his party to win.”