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Florida Gov. Rick Scott is the highest-profile endorser of Donald Trump in the nation’s biggest swing state. | Getty Rick Scott to RNC: No 'monkey business'

Florida Gov. Rick Scott passed up a chance to urge Republican National Committee members to support his preferred presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

But he warned them: no “monkey-business.”

“We’ve got to be transparent,” Scott told a packed room of RNC officials Thursday at their spring meeting in Hollywood, Fla., implicitly telling them not to cut back-room deals that would undercut the frontrunner or, in Trump’s terms, “rig” the process.

“We can’t take a chance that we’re accused of any monkey-business. Tricks. Stunts. Anything,” Scott said in his brief remarks during which he received polite applause.

Though he’s the highest-profile endorser of Trump in the nation’s biggest swing state, Scott pointedly avoided using the platform at the RNC speech to make the case for Trump. Scott said he wanted to plug Florida and the need to talk about the economy.

Scott’s speech sounded so neutral that, at times, some Republicans privately said it sounded as if the governor was taking a swipe at Trump, which Scott said he wasn’t.

“We know so many important things about our candidates,” Scott said with a touch of sarcasm during his speech. “We know how tall their boots are. We know the size of their hands. We know who’s got the best hair – mine’s easier. We know who’s got the most-beautiful wife….We know somebody’s going to build a wall…. And we know we’re going to start winning soooo much that we’re going to get tired of winning– that would be nice.”

Scott then asked and answered his own question: “What are we missing? What are we not talking about? Jobs.”

Later, when asked by reporters if Trump failed to deliver that message about the economy, Scott demurred: “I’m not running anybody’s campaign but he seems to have gotten more delegates than anybody else.”

Florida’s 99 Republican delegates are bound to vote for the March 15 primary winner, Trump, on three consecutive rounds of voting at the Republican National Convention. Trump backers say they should vote for the candidate on every round because Florida is a winner-take-all state, and Trump won it resoundingly.

“I’m not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do,” Scott told reporters. “I’m never going to become an expert on how you get delegates. I think what you’ve got to do is follow the will of voters.”