We are just under two months to go before Americans take to the polls to vote in the next President of the United States, as well as members of the U.S. Congress, and the first salvo of the 2018 senatorial general election in Florida has been launched.

Your read correctly. I wrote 2018, and not 2016.

The worst kept secret in Florida is that Scott will challenge Sen. Bill Nelson (D) for his Senate seat in 2018.

Scott has been making doing all the right things as governor to win over voters when he runs for statewide office again. Veteran Florida communications strategist Ryan Banfill said points out some a few of the governor’s accomplishments since taking office in 2010.

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As we make the turn toward 2018, Gov. Scott has some achievements to tout in his column like the turnaround in the job market, the state’s commitment to improving its ports, and his response so far to the Zika threat.-Ryan Banfill

During a press conference in Washington, D.C, where he called for an end to the politics behind the funding to combat the Zika virus, Scott delivered an unexpected political body blow to Democratic Florida Senator Bill Nelson for his “Nay” vote that helped defeat a recent Republican-sponsored Senate Zika funding bill.

Scott said Nelson “turned his back on Floridians,” which later prompted Nelson to call him out for politicizing the Zika issue himself.

Just as we’re about to reach a deal to pass a clean emergency Zika funding bill, the governor chooses to fly up here and stir things up politically. This is a serious situation, not a time for partisan politics.”-Sen. Bill Nelson (D) (TB Times)

But according to Republicans, partisan politics in the Senate is exactly what Nelson and his Democratic colleagues have done by blocking Zika funding.

Democrats say that they blocked the bills because Planned Parenthood was targeted by Republicans, a claim that Senator Marco Rubio said was completely false and an “excuse” made up by Democrats.