Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) expressed excitement on Thursday after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) named her as the replacement for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in the U.S. Senate after President-elect Donald Trump nominated Rubio for Secretary of State.
Speaking in Orlando immediately after DeSantis announced that she was his appointment for the seat, Moody said that she only had a few hours to figure out what she was going to say.
She gave DeSantis full credit for everything that Florida has become under his leadership as the state.
“I will bring the same persistence and passion and tenacity as a United States senator that I have brought as Florida’s Attorney General,” she said. “If you have worked with me and fought with me over the last six years, you know I don’t think of this as a job, I think of it as a calling. Every day I go to work, every decision that I…
