Rick Scott

There’s no doubt that Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s policies have left the state far better off than high-tax liberal bastions. Florida gained 350,000 new residents, many of them economic escapees from high-tax California, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Scott says the liberal governors of those states are the best advertisements for their citizens picking up stakes and moving to Florida. Scott announced he's running for senate against incumbent Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson.

Even with Dr. Kelli Ward leading the GOP field and likely Democratic rival Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the Senate Leadership Fund, which is run by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s allies, has said it will do everything it can to ensure Ward is not the next senator from Arizona.

Almost 97% of those responding to the poll predict that “Trump supporters will overcome the establishment to win many Senate seats in 2018,” while less than 2% say that McConnell will be able to keep the Senate under his control after the elections.

In 1977 and 1978 conservative giant Howard Phillips visited every congressional district in America to recruit candidates. During a trip to New Hampshire in 1977, only five people showed up for a meeting. One of them was Gordon Humphrey, who volunteered to run against Democrat Thomas J. McIntyre and became one of three New Right senators elected in 1978.

Daily Beast editor in chief claims that beneath the tough Senate hand dealt to Democrats, there is a lot of swing voter discontent with Tea Party governors who failed to steer toward the center once in office. 

Retiring Florida State Senate President Don Gaetz is the kind of leader we need in every state legislature; he held fast to his principles, took on a Governor from his own Party and Jeb Bush, the state’s most high profile establishment Republican politician, and didn’t cave.

Florida's pro life community went on offense this year and HB 59 (Unborn Victims of Violence Bill) and HB 1047 (Bans Abortion of a Viable Unborn Child) are now on Governor Rick Scott's desk thanks to the leadership of Florida Republican state Representatives Larry Ahern and Janet H. Adkins, and Florida state Senators Kelli Stargel and Anitere Flores.

Four years after the Tea Party wave election of 2010, these governors face their first re-election.