Republican Senator Rick Scott won a second term defeating Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in a race that Democrats had been eyeing as a potential pickup.

The Associated Press declared Senator Scott the winner just as the polls closed in all counties in Florida.

Scott served two terms as governor of Florida before defeating then Senator Bill Nelson in 2018 in a race so close it went to a mandatory recount.

The closeness of that race and the strengths of Mucarsel-Powell, a former Congresswoman from Miami, had Democrats arguing the seat was in play. Senator Scott has already announced he will seek to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell as majority leader in the next Congress.