MIAMI — There will be no photograph of Rick Scott endorsing Donald Trump: The Florida governor said Thursday that he won’t formally back any Republican presidential candidate ahead of the March 15 primary.
“The political class opposed me when I first ran for office, they did not want a businessman outsider, but the voters had other ideas,” Scott wrote on Facebook. “I believed in the voters when I first ran for office, and I still believe in them today.”
Scott had all but endorsed Trump in a USA Today column published in January. Rumors ran rampant in Florida political circles in recent days that Scott would make his choice official soon — either when Trump celebrated Super Tuesday election results at his Palm Beach estate of Mar-a-Lago two days ago, or in Trump’s upcoming Orlando rally Saturday. But neither proved to be true