DeSantis announces choice for Senate appointment after Rubio's expected resignation

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., revealed connected Thursday who helium plans to name to the Senate erstwhile Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., resigns, arsenic helium is expected to beryllium confirmed to beryllium President-elect Donald Trump's Secretary of State aft his inauguration. 

The politician selected Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to beryllium the adjacent senator. 

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Moody has been a cardinal state of DeSantis successful the authorities and worked successful tandem with him to facilitate his docket arsenic governor. 

When asked astir perchance taking connected the relation connected "Fox and Friends First" successful November, Moody said, "I person my hands afloat present arsenic lawyer general, and I'm incredibly focused connected this job, moving connected behalf of Floridians, making definite I'm protecting the autonomy of the authorities and pushing Washington retired of our concern and holding them accountable. Of course, I emotion … being successful leadership, moving with President Trump, moving with Governor DeSantis. And I anticipation to proceed moving connected behalf of Floridians."

Initially, Trump and Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Rick Scott, R-Fla., endorsed Trump's daughter-in-law and erstwhile RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump to win Rubio. However, she aboriginal withdrew her sanction from consideration. 

"After an unthinkable magnitude of thought, contemplation, and encouragement from truthful many, I person decided to region my sanction from information for the United States Senate," she wrote connected X.