Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Monday accused Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman of eager to commit voter fraud after he mentioned he opposes obligatory voter ID.
Scott, chairman of the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee, spoke to Sean Hannity about a number of key midterm races, predicting confidently that the GOP will win again management of the higher chamber of Congress regardless of Democratic-friendly adjustments within the forecast over the past month. Hannity, apparently nonetheless aggrieved that Fetterman hasn’t agreed to return on his present to debate him, started the phase by criticizing the Keystone State’s lieutenant governor after threatening him with authorized motion simply final week in response to the Fetterman marketing campaign utilizing Hannity’s identify in a fundraising electronic mail.
“John, by the way in which, I see you’re fundraising once more off of my identify. Come on the present, carry your hoodie, carry your tattoos, powerful man, and we’ll discuss your positions and your personal phrases,” the Fox host challenged. “We’ve by no means advised a single lie about you. What you're responsible of is known as slander and libel.”
Hannity then talked about a FoxNews.com story from earlier within the day about Fetterman’s opposition to voter ID legal guidelines. The story quoted Fetterman as being towards them as a result of “there are tens of hundreds of Pennsylvanians who usually are on the poorer facet and are individuals of colour which might be much less prone to have their ID at anybody given time.”
Scott reacted to the story first by searching for to guarantee Fox viewers that Dr. Mehmet Oz is a “nice” candidate and the “greatest well being care discuss present host on the planet.” Scott, who has differed on some points with Minority Chief Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), was maybe motivated by McConnell’s current suggestion that the standard of Republican candidates in Senate races may very well be higher. (Oz himself pushed again towards that notion on Fox Enterprise Community final week.)
Fetterman is “gentle on crime,” Scott claimed. “He desires to let, what, a 3rd of the felons out proper now. He desires to legalize medication, he desires to kill jobs by banning fracking. He desires to commit fraud within the election by… eliminating voter ID. I imply, this man’s a radical.”
Fetterman, who mocked Republican politicians after the 2020 election by pointing to GOP cases of voter fraud, additionally mentioned final summer season that common voter ID necessities are “insidious and pointless.”