Hi, friend — did you see me on MSNBC?

Just days after skipping a Senate vote to accompany Donald Trump in court, Rick Scott announced that he's officially running to be the next Senate Republican leader. This means my race to retire Rick Scott could decide BOTH the Senate majority and the majority leader.

That's why I was so glad to discuss the news with Lawrence O'Donnell and spread the word nationwide about how high the stakes are in Florida's elections.

Listen: My opponent, Rick Scott, co-sponsored a nationwide ban on abortions, he wrote the plan to end Medicare and Social Security, and he wants to raise taxes on the middle class. This is the guy whose agenda is too extreme for even Mitch McConnell.

We cannot let him become the Senate majority leader this November.

Make no mistake: Mitch McConnell's time as Senate GOP leader was one of the worst things to ever happen to the Senate. It will take years for our country and our democracy to fully recover from his decades of corruption, cronyism, extremism, and obstruction.

But Rick Scott as Senate GOP leader would be much, much worse.

He's already spent over $4 MILLION running attack ads, and he can keep writing checks from his massive fortune of up to almost a quarter billion dollars. Last time around, he spent $64 million to buy his seat.

I'm not just up against an extremist, friend — I'm up against a multi-millionaire extremist. With this momentum on our side, we have a golden opportunity to build the resources it'll take to retire him, so long as I can count on your help. Will you please rush $5 to help me build a grassroots war chest that can defeat Scott's fortune, flip Florida blue, and stop the GOP's anti-choice extremism in Florida and across the nation?

Thank you for being a part of this movement to turn the tides in Florida.

Debbie