Sen. Rick Scott, during an appearance on Friday’s “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton“ show, offered optimistic predictions about Republican hopes in November.

And he credits presumptive presidential nominee Donald J. Trump with offering uplift.

“The only two of the states that we have to defend are Texas and Florida and (Ted Cruz) is working hard (in Texas) and we’re going to work hard and we’re going to win,” Scott said.

“We’re going to pick up West Virginia. So that gets us to 50 Republicans,” Scott said, suggesting that a couple other toss-up states could map the GOP road to the Senate majority.

He also believes Republicans will “pick up” Ohio, where Bernie Moreno is challenging Democrat Sh...

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