Fox’s Brit Hume Predicts MAGA’s ‘Longshot’ Candidate for Senate GOP Leader Will ‘Backfire’

Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume said that despite the best efforts of “Trump world,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is “a longshot” to become the next Senate Republican leader.

Republicans retook control of the Senate in last week’s elections, and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is stepping aside as the party’s leader in the upper chamber. Scott, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and Sen. John Thune (SD) are all vying for the role. Elon Musk, who spent hundreds of millions to get President-Elect Donald Trump back in the White House, has called for Scott to get the position. The billionaire even called Thune “the top choice of Democrats.”

“You’ve got Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk and others who are supporting Senator Scott,” Hume noted on Monday’s Special Report on Fox News. “I actually think Senator Scott’s kind of a longshot. The reason being that, for example, he was head of the Republican National Senatorial Committee in the ’21-’22 election cycle, raised a ton of money. As you may recall, Republicans had a terrible result in those midterm elections. Remember the red wave was supposed to come? It never broke.”

Scott took heat during that cycle. In September 2022, Fox News host Martha MacCallum confronted the senator over how Senate Republicans were spending money.

“And there was a lot of questions about where all that money went, why it was all spent so early in the process, and how much of it was spent by Scott to boost himself,” Hume continued. “And I don’t think he’s close to a lot of senators. And I think this pressure from Trump world to support him is likely to backfire. Senators are jealous of their authority, their powers. They don’t like to be told what to do. And I think that the other two candidates are more likely to win. I couldn’t tell you which one, but I think Scott’s a longshot.”

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