Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Newsmax on Wednesday his main goal in dealing with hurricanes as governor of Florida from 2011 to 2019 — four hit the state in his final three years in office — was to keep everyone safe.

Scott appeared on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” just hours before Hurricane Milton was expected to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast. As Florida’s governor in October 2017, Scott engineered one of the largest mass evacuations in  U.S. history, according to the Florida Association of Counties, with an estimated 6.8 million people fleeing their homes in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

It’s possible the evacuations for Milton, a Category 3 storm set to hit near the heavily populated Tampa Bay area, could approach the numbers for Irma.

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