Republican governors delight in dominance under Donald Trump
Source: Tampa Bay Times
ORLANDO — There aren't many elected Republicans in America happier about Donald Trump's election than Florida Gov. Rick Scott, an early Trump supporter in a battleground state dominated by Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio loyalists.
Not only is Scott a fellow super-rich businessman and political outsider who ran against the GOP establishment, he also ran a health care company, Columbia/HCA, that was targeted by the Clinton administration in the 1990s for Medicare fraud. So you can understand why Gov. Scott — a likely candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018 — is smiling big this week.
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley nine months ago saw Trump as "everything a governor doesn't want in a president." On Tuesday, one week after his election, she described herself as "giddy" and saw nothing but opportunity.
"Just right off the bat think about the regulations we can roll back, whether it's EPA related, the overtime rules, Obamacare," she told assorted vendors, lobbyists and political activists gathered at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek. "I've never known what it's like to have a Republican president. I can tell you over the last six years, Washington was the hardest part of my job."
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This is reporting from the annual conference of the Republican Governors Association in Orlando
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