WASHINGTON — Rick Scott is laying the groundwork for a potential 2024 presidential run, and his path — if successful — will look at lot like his three statewide races in Florida.
In 2010, 2014 and 2018, Scott outspent the competition, in part due to his vast wealth that allowed him to spend a combined $150 million of his own family’s money, in addition to donor support, to win and keep the Florida governor’s mansion as a virtual unknown in politics and flip a U.S. Senate seat during an election cycle that was bad for Republicans nationwide.
The 68-year-old Naples resident was also willing to spend money on poll-tested TV messages over and over again, often months before his opponents began running ads of their own. Scott ran the first 2024-style TV ad over a year ago, spending money attacking then-candidate Joe Biden during the Iowa Caucuses.
