With his shiny, shaved head and goggle eyes, Rick Scott looks disconcertingly like a shark. He has the personality of Ted Cruz, minus the charisma. He has plenty of legal and ethical baggage from his days in the private sector. He may very well be the worst public speaker I have ever seen at any level of government. He barely managed to scrape out three victories in Florida. And yet, he clearly plans to run for president in 2024, based on the fact that he is running pro-Trump commercials in states outside of Florida. One imagines he is doing this because he is used to being a CEO, and the role of junior senator from Florida bores him spitless.
Scott appears to be trying to make a name for himself on a national level by attacking the newly unemployed. Under the current circumstances, it’s hard for me to see that issue as a vote winner, even four years hence.
Does he have a chance to win a national election? In a word, no. He spent plenty of his own money to make a name for himself in Florida, but that won’t work on a much larger scale. Michael Bloomberg could tell you that, and Scott doesn’t have anything like Bloomberg’s money.