Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is backing Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) as his top choice for Senate Majority Leader after hosting a candidate forum on Tuesday, listing his takeaways from the session and urging his colleagues to join him.
The candidate forum, organized by Sen. Lee, featured the three contenders seeking to take the reins from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 82.
Breitbart News detailed:
Several senators discussed the importance of opening up the floor to consider legislation, the need to permit debate on the Senate floor and internally among Republican Senators, and the best leadership strategies and styles to move President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Most senators kept their preferences hidden after the forum.
But Lee is not one of those individuals. Following the forum, he announced that he is formally backing Scott and walked through his takeaways from the…