AVENGERS.
THIS SCI-FI THRILLER IS GOING
GREAT.
BACK TO YOU.
STUART: IT SURE IS.
FRANKLY I'M SHOCKED.
THANK YOU, NICOLE.
THE TITLE OF THIS OP-ED FROM
NEWT GINGRICH.
CALIFORNIA MAY ELECT A
REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR.
INCREDIBLE AS THAT SOUNDS.
YES IT IS.
KARL ROVE AIRED WHAT YOU MAKE OF
THAT?
BY WHAT YOU MY HEART, BUT I'M
ENCOURAGED BY THIS DEVELOPMENT.
WHAT SAY YOU.
>> WELL, IT'S AN UPHILL CLIMB.
THEY HAVE A PRIMARY OUT THERE,
WHICH MEANS EVERYBODY,
REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT ALIKE
WENT IN ONE PRIMARY.
LATEST POLLING SHOWS LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR IN THE LEAD FOLLOWED BY
THE FORMER MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES,
ANTHONY DE LA ROSA AND IN THIRD
PLACE IS REPUBLICAN COX, JOHN
COX A BUSINESSMAN, NOW WHAT
THEY -- THERE WERE SEVERAL
OPTIONS HERE.
WE END UP IN THE GENERAL
ELECTION, TWO DEMOCRATS.
THE TOP TWO VOTE GETTERS
REGARDLESS OF THE GENERAL
ELECTION.
OR COX CONTINUES ITS UPWARD
MOVEMENT AND APPEARS TO BE
DWINDLING A LITTLE BIT AND
PASSES HIM BY THE TIME OF THE
PRIMARY IN WHICH CASE WE COULD
HAVE SORT OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN ON
THE EAST COAST AND STATE LIKE
MASSACHUSETTS OR NEW JERSEY, THE
VOTERS SAY WE NEED TO HAVE AN
ADULT WHO IS SERVING AS A LITTLE
BIT OF A RESTRAINT ON THE WORST
IMPULSES OF THE DEMOCRATS.
SO WE WILL ELECT CHARLIE BAKER
IN MASSACHUSETTS OR CHRIS
CHRISTIE IN NEW JERSEY OR LARRY
HOGAN IN MARYLAND, REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR TO BALANCE THINGS OUT
AND REIN IN THE EXCESSES.
STUART: YOU THINK IT'S VERY MUCH
A LONGSHOT AT THIS POINT?
>> AN UPHILL CLIMB.
COX HAS GOT SOME MONEY.
THERE ARE CERTAINLY MORE THAN
ONE OUT OF EVERY FIVE VOTERS IN
THE DATE IS REPUBLICAN.
HE COULD MAKE THE CASE HE
DEFENDED DEAN IN THE ELECTION
AND THEN AT THE QUESTION IS CAN
HE MAKE THE CASE?
YOU WANT TO HAVE A SANE AND
SENSIBLE PERSON IN CHARGE OF OUR
GOVERNMENT AS OPPOSED TO OTHER
CRAZIES RUNNING THIS IN
SACRAMENTO.
BUT IT IS A TEST BLOG AND HELP
SOURCE WIRE IN THE COUNTRY.
ONE PROBLEM IS A SECOND
REPUBLICAN WITH 7% OF THE VOTE
IN THE MOST RECENT POLL RUNNING
TO SIX, SEVEN, 8% IN THE SENATE.
IF HE WERE TO DWINDLE, THOSE
VOTES WOULD NATURALLY GO TO COX.
STUART: THIS MORNING, FLORIDA'S
GOVERNOR, REPUBLICAN RICK SCOTT
DECLARED HE'S RUNNING FOR THE
SENATE SEAT HELD BY BILL NELSON.
YOU THINK HE'S GOT A SHOT?
>> I DO.
I THINK HE'S GOT AN EXCELLENT
SHOT.
HE'S BEEN A GOOD GOVERNOR AND
HIS WORK THE STATE ASSIDUOUSLY,
PAID ATTENTION TO HIS JOB.
WE SAW LAST FALL, THERE IS THE
GOVERNOR IN COMMAND MAKING
DECISIONS, WARNING PEOPLE TO
TAKE ACTION AND WAS EVERYWHERE
AND WAS RIGHT THERE IN THE
MIDDLE OF THIS ALL.
DON'T ALSO MARKED A LITTLE
DISTANT, A LITTLE OUT OF TOUCH
AND NOT REALLY CONNECT TO IT.
RICK SCOTT HAS BEEN A GOOD
TWO-TERM GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA.
HE'S PAID ATTENTION TO THE JOB.
HE'S GOT A LOT OF ACCOMPLISHED
THOSE HE CAN POINT TO AND IN THE
STATE DONALD TRUMP ONE NARROWLY,
HE'S GOT AN EXCELLENT SHOT
APPEARED
STUART: BOTH SIDES OF
$900 MILLION?
>> EASILY.
SCOTT HAS A DEEP POCKET OF HIS
OWN, BUT BOTH SIDES WILL SPEND A
LOT OF MONEY.
THIS IS THE THIRD MOST POPULAR
STATE IN THE UNION AFTER TEXAS
AND CALIFORNIA AND IT'S GOT A
HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
VERY LONG PANHANDLE AND A LONG
PENINSULA.
THE FURTHER SOUTH YOU GO, THE
MORE NORTH YOU ARE.
THINK ABOUT THAT A MOMENT YOU
CAN FIGURE IT OUT.
STUART: IT WILL TAKE ME A WHILE.
>> ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN MIAMI WHO
ARE FROM NEW YORK AND NEW
JERSEY, PALM BEACH AND BROWARD
COUNTY AND UP NORTH IT IS SOUTH.
THE NORTHERN PART HAS A LOT IN
COMMON WITH LOWER ALABAMA AND
GEORGIA THAN IT DOES WITH LOWER
FLORIDA.
STUART: YOU BEEN A PENSACOLA
RECENTLY?
>> I USED TO THE PLACE OF THEIR
RECALL THAT THE REDNECK RIVIERA
AT THE TOURISM PEOPLE SAY WE NOW
HAVE TO CALL IT THE EMERALD