Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s most high-profile supporters are pushing for Sen. Rick Scott to become the new Senate majority leader.

Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tucker Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy and Charlie Kirk, as well as several members of Congress, have endorsed Scott in recent days. 

In a secret-ballot vote Wednesday, Senate Republicans will choose between Scott and Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and John Thune of South Dakota for who will succeed longtime party leader Mitch McConnell when the GOP takes control of the Senate in January. 

Trump has not endorsed a candidate in the race, and it’s unclear if he will. 

“Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader!” Musk wrote Sunday on X, formerly Twitter.

Musk was responding to a post from Scott in which he said he agreed with Trump “100%” after the former and future president wrote on social media that the next Senate majority leader must allow him to make recess appointments of his nominees, a process that allows presidents to fill vacancies while the Senate is out of session.

“I will do whatever it takes to get your nominations through as quickly as possible,” Scott posted.

“Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump,” Carlson posted Saturday on X. “Call your senator and demand a public endorsement of Rick Scott.”

A former governor and health care executive, Scott said in a Fox News interview Sunday that he is the best candidate to “change the way the Senate is run to get Trump’s agenda done.”

Either Cornyn or Thune has held the No. 2 role among Republicans in the Senate since 2013. They’ve also run afoul of Trump at times, with the president-elect referring to them both as “RINOs” — which stands for “Republicans in name only.”

Last year, Cornyn said he thought Trump’s “time has passed him by” and that Republicans needed "a candidate who can actually win” the 2024 election, adding that he believed Trump had struggled to broaden his appeal beyond his base.

And Cornyn was publicly skeptical of Trump’s claims of a stolen presidential election in 2020. 

In 2016, Thune called on Trump to drop out of the election after the release of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape. Thune also criticized Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “inexcusable,” although he voted to acquit him in his impeachment trial and endorsed him this year.

In his post, Carlson said Cornyn and Thune “hate Trump and what he ran on.” He called Cornyn “an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney’s.”

Musk said Thune “is the top choice of Democrats.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who is backing Scott, posted a video to social media calling attention to Thune’s past criticism of Trump.

“Senator John Thune has consistently shown that he does not support President Trump's agenda, and his track record reflects that,” she wrote. “The Senate deserves a majority leader who is committed to serving the will of the people.”

Spectrum News has reached out to Cornyn’s and Thune’s offices for comment.

Kennedy, who is line for a role overseeing public health in Trump’s administration, wrote, “Without Rick Scott, the entire Trump reform agenda wobbly.”

Ramaswamy, a businessman who ran for the Republican presidential nomination, called Scott “by far the best choice” among the leader candidates.

Kirk, co-founder of the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA, also endorsed Scott last week.

It’s unclear how much support Scott has among Senate Republicans. He challenged McConnell for leader in 2022 and lost 37-10. But a handful of GOP senators are publicly backing Scott.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., announced Sunday he will vote for Scott. 

Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., posted that he wants a majority leader “who can join me in embracing the Trump agenda, which will unify Senate Republicans,” adding, “I will be voting for Rick Scott.”

Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky have also endorsed Scott.

Like Scott, both Cornyn and Thune seemed open to Trump’s call to accelerate Senate confirmations of his nominees.

Even before Trump’s social media post, Cornyn wrote on X: “The first order of business in the new Senate should be confirming President Trump’s cabinet. If I am the majority leader, I will keep the Senate in session until those confirmations occur.”

Thune, who has said he prefers for Trump not to influence the speaker race, said: “We must act quickly and decisively to get the president’s nominees in place as soon as possible, & all options are on the table to make that happen, including recess appointments.”