The Lion's Den: Rick Scott hopes Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' choice for president: 'We’re all going to vote for capitalism'

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Rick Scott hopes Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' choice for president: 'We’re all going to vote for capitalism'

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday that he hopes Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wins the Democratic presidential nomination and runs against President Trump because that would represent the "squalor and death of socialism versus the opportunity of capitalism."

Scott, who attended President Trump’s rally in New Hampshire on the eve of the state's first-in-the-nation primary, added that “we’re all going to vote for capitalism.”

Sanders, the populist senator from Vermont who’s making his second straight White House run, is in the driver’s seat – sitting atop the final public opinion polls, drawing large and energetic crowds in the closing days, and sporting arguably the largest grassroots get-out-the-vote operation in the Granite State.

After getting out of Iowa’s caucuses with essentially a tie with 2020 nomination rival former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, expectations are high for self-described democratic socialist Sanders in a state where he shares home-field advantage with fellow progressive standard-bearer Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

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