WATCH: Senator Rick Scott Lays Out Game Plan For How Republicans Will Win Back Senate In 2022

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott of Florida told NBC News’ Chuck Todd on Sunday that the recipe for Republicans winning back the Senate in 2022 will be to accept any political endorsement offered by former President Donald Trump, if Trump offers one, but to also focus on the issues that matter most to voters.

Scott said that he hopes that “Democrats continue to be obsessed with Donald Trump” because they are avoiding the issues that matter most to voters.

“I think what we have to do is we have to say we would love Donald Trump’s endorsement,” Scott said. “If you’re a Republican, you want his endorsement, but you’re going to win on the issues. And if you listen to Ron Klain and you listen to Phil Murphy, they didn’t get it. What, what Americans are fed up with, they’re fed up with inflation. They’re fed up with their kids being indoctrinated in their schools and they’re fed up with defunding the police. And those are the issues that people care about. And so, I think this obsession with Donald Trump is going to be good for Republicans next year.”

“I think you’d be foolish not to want and accept Donald Trump’s endorsement, but you’re going to win not because somebody endorses you,” he continued. “You’re going to win because you focused on making sure inflation gets stopped, making sure people get a job, making sure your kids aren’t indoctrinated on critical race theory, making sure we have safe communities. That’s going to be the issues that people care about.”

CHUCK TODD, NBC NEWS HOST: Welcome back. After their strong election night on Tuesday, Republicans are even more bullish about winning control of the House next year, and now even the 50-50 Senate. Senator Rick Scott of Florida is the head of the Republican Senate campaign committee and he joins me now. Senator Scott, welcome back to Meet The Press, sir.

SEN. RICK SCOTT: It’s great. It was a good day for Republicans on Tuesday and I think it puts us in position and we’re going to have a great November ’22.

CHUCK TODD: Let me start with something here that stuck out to me, that as unpopular as Joe Biden was in Virginia, Donald Trump was actually more unpopular. Both Glenn Youngkin and Jack Ciattarelli had a similar stance on how to deal with Donald Trump. They didn’t attack him or denounce him,

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