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Today at 2:15PM ET I will be delivering my maiden speech on the Senate Floor to share my personal story and vision for America’s future. Watch live here: https://www.c-span.org/congress/?chamber=senate …

While I didn’t always appreciate my tough-love, my-way-or-the-highway Mom growing up, I now thank God every day for my Mom and this country. She gave me the opportunity to experience every lesson this country had to offer before I was 20.

Unfortunately, the Left has worked hard over the last fifty years to discredit the values of the America I was raised with – the values of the America I want my grandsons to grow up with.

I was able to live the American Dream because I worked hard. I lived out the values my mom taught me in my business career – hard work and fiscal responsibility, but with a caring spirit to support those around me.

I took those same values to the Gov’s office when I got elected in 2010. FL had been struggling. 832,000 jobs lost in the 4 yrs before I took office. Home prices cut in half. Debt was soaring. The state raised taxes on its poorest citizens by more than $2B to fill a budget hole.

In eight years, Florida added 1.7 million new jobs, we paid down almost one-third of state debt and invested record funding in education, the environment, and transportation.

But I also tried to fight for the values that are being lost in this country – I fight to protect life, to support the institution of the family, to lift up our military members, veterans & law enforcement, to promote capitalism and to defend the rule of law and the constitution.