Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) said Thursday, after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced her as the successor to up-to-date Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), “I will lead the country. I don't intend to disappoint you.” President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet.
“I want you to know that I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let Floridians down, I'm not going to let this country down,” Moody said after DeSantis invited him to the stage. said.
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“It was just six years ago that I met a very enthusiastic, passionate person who wanted to be governor of Florida, and he said if you're going to get in there and implement conservative policies, you're going to have to step up the scale. I said if we're going to scale back, we're going to make sure we roll this back.'' We can thrive with limited government. Look at what the state of Florida has done since then,” she marveled, promising to “bring the same tenacity, passion and tenacity to the United States Senate that I brought to the U.S. Senate as Florida's attorney general.”
“I don't think of this as a job. I think of it as a calling. I go to work every day, every decision I make, and every person I hire. I understand that the people of Florida have given me this opportunity and I want to do what I promised them, and that is what we are going to do to protect their rights. Just like I was We were going to protect our national autonomy. We were going to protect our communities. And we believe we accomplished that, and we must take that same direction with the United States Senate. “I'm ready to show up and fight for this country and for President Trump,” Moody continued, to deliver on his America First agenda on day one. ”
She continued:
The thing that pissed me off the most as Attorney General is that as I've had to fight the Biden administration over the last four years, I've seen policy after policy after policy… as the agency gets bigger and more… As we have gained more power, we have increasingly tried to tell the states what to do. All it does is capture the will of the people, the desires of the people through their elected representatives in Congress, and they turn this country into a country we no longer even recognize.
“So I want to send one message now to President Trump and my new colleagues in the United States Senate: America First. Let's get it done,” Moody said.
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Mr. DeSantis said he expected Mr. Rubio to be confirmed “soon after the inauguration of the 47th president, President Trump,” and that he expected Mr. Moody to be sworn in on January 20.
