leader role, but what do you make of that news? listen, before the midterm results came in for the senate, you had rick scott and mitch mcconnell trying to figure out who was going to get the most credit for the senate going back over to republican hands, right? that was the discussion going on between their two camps, and now you ve got disarray in some ways in terms of the republican party, in terms of what happened not only in the house but the senate as well. and so i think in rick scott you have someone who has designs on running for the white house in 2024. he very much wants to use his position in the senate and as the leader of the re-election campaign for senators and the attempts to capture the senate, he wanted to kruse it as a spri board to run for president, and now that plan looks like it s in shambles. but i think he still wants to establish himself as sort of the
218 and make some deals. he was always expected to have to do deals with the house freedom caucus. with this margin likely to be so small, it really makes it all the harder. he s going to need the support from it. nearly every person he can get to get where he wants to go in terms of being speaker of the house. and i d also like to take us back to the senate for one second. i just came over from their policy lunch. they normally meet both parties on tuesdays. normally they ve been over for hours now. this is the republican policy lunch is now stretching into its second hour. it s going on much longer than it normally does. senator kevin cramer telling cnn it s largely about whether or not to delay the vote on their leadership which is slated to take place tomorrow. my colleague ma gnaw raju reporting that florida senator rick scot t has decided to challenge mitch mcconnell. it s really more of a protest he s doing. it s a long shot that scott would beat mcconnell. it is the first real
they re currently leading in ten. they would knneed to hold every blue seat and then somehow flip four of the ones leaning red at this point, and none of them, honestly, this one may be the best chance for them. he was a republican incumbent who voted for impeachment. this is a very democratic district. it s plus 12, d. the democrats still have a chance here even though they re down 3,000, just 40% in. this may give them one. to get them the other four they would need it is a steep climb. math mathically possible, but tough. let s discuss further. cnn s senior political analyst, elizabeth troy a former homeland security official and counterterrorism adviser to former vice president make pence. the reporting from jessica dean that mitch mcconnell will have a challenge symbolic because it doesn t look like at this point that rick scott has enough votes to actually win the minority