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Scott: Trump will win big in Florida

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday predicted a “big win” by Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton in his state come November and warned the Republican Party establishment not to interfere with the will of the voters.

“Oh, I think he’ll clearly beat Hillary Clinton. We don’t want four more years of Barack Obama,” Scott said in an interview with “Fox & Friends” in which he frequently emphasized his similarities to Trump as a businessman-turned-politician. “If you look, they’ve seen that a businessperson outsider can turn this state around. I think they’re very open to a businessperson outsider to turn our federal government around. So I think Donald Trump will have a big win in November in Florida.”

As to why he waited until after the Tuesday primary to formally endorse Trump, Scott said he did the “right thing” in waiting, remarking that when he ran for governor in 2010, “all of the establishment told me to get out of the race, we would not win, we would hurt our chance to win later.”

“And what happened, we won, we had big majorities in the House and Senate. We’ve turned our state around. We’ve had tough primaries,” Scott said. “The voters have picked Donald Trump. It’s time to coalesce behind Donald Trump, because the issue is, we’ve got to win in November.”

Noting that Floridians Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio both lost and other governors have not made it, Scott said the time has come to “coalesce behind Donald Trump so we don’t have Hillary Clinton in November. We can’t keep having this Republican-on-Republican fighting. I want jobs. I know Donald Trump can focus on jobs like I’ve done down here and turn this economy around.”

As for Rubio, Scott said his home state senator “worked really hard” but that Trump “has done a great job of getting his message out.”

“The issue this year is jobs, just like my races in 2010 and 2014, it’s all about jobs,” he said. “People are ready for a big change in government.”