On this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown,” I speak to Sen. Rick Scott of Florida about his bid to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as leader of Senate Republicans and how the Nov. 5 election will shape the next Congress.
In our discussion, Scott suggests McConnell has become tyrannical as Senate minority leader, as has Chuck Schumer of New York as Senate majority leader.
“What we have here is we have dictatorships,” Scott tells me. “We have the McConnell dictatorship and the Schumer dictatorship. … Schumer tells Democrats how to vote, McConnell comes in and tells Republicans how to vote.”
Scott says things are so broken that the current Senate GOP doesn’t have a governing agenda.
“In our bylaws, we’re supposed to have a legislative agenda,” Scott tells me. “I’ve been up here six years. There’s no legislative agenda. You…
