Rick Scott says Max Miller ‘shouldn’t be in office’ after Emily Moreno abuse allegations

Rick Scott didn't hedge, and he didn't do the thing politicians usually do when a colleague from their own party gets caught up in something ugly. He didn't say "let the process play out" or "we need to see all the facts." He said Max Miller shouldn't be in office. Full stop. That's rare enough on its own to be worth noticing.

The reflex in Washington, on both sides, is to circle the wagons the second someone's teammate is accused of something. Democrats did it for years with members who had real, documented histories of misconduct, and Republicans have their own版 of that instinct too. So when a sitting senator gets asked point blank about a "double standard" and instead of dodging just says no, there isn't one, this shouldn't be happening, that's not spin. That's someone actually answering the question he was asked.

We don't know every detail of what happened between Miller and Emily Moreno, and neither does Scott, probably. But the allegations here aren't vague innuendo, they're specific and serious, and they've been piling up. At some point "let's wait and see" starts looking less like caution and more like cover. Scott apparently decided that point had arrived.

If Republicans want to keep credibly criticizing Democrats for protecting their own, moments like this are the test. You don't get to demand accountability from the other team and then go silent when it's your own name on the ballot line. Scott passed that test here. Whether his colleagues follow him is the real story to watch now.