MEMO

TO: REPUBLICAN VOTERS, ACTIVISTS, LEADERS, DONORS

FROM: SENATOR RICK SCOTT, NRSC CHAIRMAN
RE: REPUBLICAN CIVIL WAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
DATE: FEBRUARY 23, 2020
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The long running impeachment show is now over. This political theater should have been
held at the other end of Washington in the Kennedy Center instead of the US Capitol. It was
an unserious circus. It’s over. Now it’s time to look ahead.
First, let’s evaluate our situation: The Democrats control the White House, the Senate, and
the House of Representatives. In other words, they control Washington.
Here is what they have done and are in the process of doing so far: cutting border security,
granting amnesty to illegals, cancelling the Keystone pipeline destroying thousands of jobs,
allowing males to compete in women’s sports, banning fracking on federal lands making us
less energy independent and using tax dollars to pay for abortion in foreign countries. And
they have built an amazing military-style wall around the US Capitol, at the same time they
are stopping construction on the wall at our southern border.
Oh, and they also want to cancel us, not simply from social media, but they also want to get
you fired from your job, get your bank to drop you, make you unemployable in the future, re-
educate you, and completely silence anyone who disagrees with their new woke version of
socialism in America.
And yet, at the very same time these far-left radicals are trying to remake America in their
image, and lead us into a disastrous, dystopian, socialist future, we have a parade of
pundits and even Republican voices suggesting we should have a GOP civil war.
NO.
This does not need to be true, should not be true, and will not be true. Those fanning these
flames, in both the media and our own ranks, desire a GOP civil war.
No, we don’t have time for that: The hour is late, the Democrats are planning to destroy our
freedoms, and the threat in front of us is very real.
Perhaps in more genteel times, a bunch of infighting and arguing wouldn’t do much
damage. Truthfully, I enjoy bantering back and forth, and I have no interest in trying to quell
intraparty policy dialogue and debates.
But now is not the time for division and here’s why: For the first time in any of our lives,
socialism has become the unabashed, governing policy of the Democrat Party. The
Democrats are fast abandoning any pretense of allegiance to the first and second
amendments to our Constitution, they’ll give up on the rest of it in due time.
This is real life folks. If they can cancel the President of the United States, they will have no
problem cancelling you and me. Today’s Democrats do not want to simply “cancel” us, they
want to destroy anyone who disagrees with them.
Meanwhile, President Biden will continue to dutifully smile and read teleprompter lines
about unity while his radical Administration destroys everyone who disagrees or disobeys.
To beat this threat -- the threat of socialism, crushing debt, loss of freedom -- we must focus
on addition, not subtraction; on looking forward, not backward.
Hopefully, at some point in the future, we will have beaten this threat back and find
ourselves strong enough to afford self-indulgent divisions. But that day is not today.
Today, we must show our Democrat adversaries that, as Mark Twain would say, reports of
the death of the Republican coalition and the American Dream are wildly exaggerated. The
truth is the exact opposite. The table is set for us.
President Trump brought many working-class voters our way, and Hispanic voters are
increasingly inclined to vote Republican. Meanwhile, the Democrats have become the party
of the elites, the naïve, and the socialist left, giving us tremendous opportunity to recapture
our historic strength in America’s suburbs.
Yes, we are up against powerful elites headquartered in Washington and on the coasts, and
they endlessly try to lecture, bully, and intimidate us. But we can beat them.
Some of you voted for President Trump enthusiastically, some with reservations, and some
with great reluctance. It doesn’t matter. We got 74 million votes, and we can easily add to
our numbers if we work together.
Looking backward won’t help us win. Let us look forward and fix our eyes on what is
important – an America with plenty of good-paying jobs, an America with great schools and
safe communities, an America with freedoms and liberties people around the world would
die for. The only way we can lose is if we stop ourselves by needlessly fracturing. Again,
now is not the time. Save it for another day.
The Republican Civil War is now cancelled.
You and I are being called upon to rescue our nation from a socialist experiment that always
has a tragic finale, an ending that involves loss – loss of prosperity, loss of freedom and
loss of life. Let’s work together, let’s focus forward, and let’s get to work to create the
America our families want and deserve.