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<p>It’s no secret that Florida Democrats hate Sen. Rick Scott. What’s less known is that many <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-rick-scott-became-the-senator-washington-loves-to-hate">Republicans feel the same way</a>.</p>
<p>To his detractors, Scott is a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-gov-scott-rich-and-getting-richer-worth-232m/">big-money</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/us/florida-governor-signs-law-to-cut-funding-for-abortion-clinics.html?_r=0">anti-abortion</a> villain trying to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-trolls-republicans-on-social-security-after-rick-scott-puts-his-foot-in-it">sunset Social Security</a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-rick-scott-became-the-senator-washington-loves-to-hate">topple the old guard GOP</a>. But as Democrats try to mount a Senate campaign against Scott this year, both Republicans and Democrats are about to find out whether candidate quality matters anymore in a state that was once considered the swingiest in the nation.</p>
<p>It very well might not.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-sen-rick-scott-is-uniquely-unpopular-in-florida-can-dems-and-debbie-mucarsel-powell-capitalize">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images
It’s no secret that Florida Democrats hate Sen. Rick Scott. What’s less known is that many Republicans feel the same way.
To his detractors, Scott is a big-money, anti-abortion villain trying to sunset Social Security and topple the old guard GOP. But as Democrats try to mount a Senate campaign against Scott this year, both Republicans and Democrats are about to find out whether candidate quality matters anymore in a state that was once considered the swingiest in the nation.
