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Ghost of Boehner Haunts Blum in Iowa
[ Blum Says Others Will Support Him If Republicans Don’t ] In 2014, Blum benefited from having a competitive Senate race, with Republican Joni Ernst, topping the ticket.
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[ Blum Says Others Will Support Him If Republicans Don’t ] In 2014, Blum benefited from having a competitive Senate race, with Republican Joni Ernst, topping the ticket.
Mark Kirk, the most vulnerable Senate Republican running for re-election in 2016, on Tuesday withdrew his support of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, citing the presumptive GOP nominee’s erratic temperament
The voters back home wouldn’t know it watching his re-election campaign’s first TV ad .
Bush win re-election in 2004 over fears about terrorism. “We think we can make a very similar kind of appeal, and that’s obviously in the messaging we’ve already produced,” Snyder said.
Merkley is Sanders’ lone Senate backer and Clinton far exceeds Sanders in congressional endorsements.
[ Third Candidate Joins Louisiana Senate Race ] Louisiana conducts a “jungle primary” in which candidates run in the same race regardless of political party.
A Republican Senate candidate in Florida is firing a warning shot at Sen. Marco Rubio and the party leaders trying to persuade him to run for re-election: GOP voters have already moved on.
Marco Rubio will reverse course and run for re-election to his Senate seat, but he would much rather be discussing the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Marco Rubio to run for re-election , convinced he’s likely the only candidate capable of holding a battleground seat. To which Senate Democrats are now responding: Don’t be so sure.
In a tweet , Trump pleaded with his former Republican presidential primary rival to seek re-election to the Senate — in spite of Rubio’s insistence that he doesn’t want to — referencing poll numbers
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said he has talked to Rubio about seeking re-election.
Maggie Hassan in her re-election bid by a similarly narrow margin.
Toomey’s letter might look like a momentary diversion as he prepares for re-election.
She announced in April she was “seriously considering” running for governor in 2018 rather than seeking re-election. Rep.
Matt Bevin, now Kentucky’s governor, fell to McConnell in the 2014 GOP Senate primary.
North Carolina Libertarian Senate candidate Sean Haugh has had it with the debate over the state’s controversial transgender bathroom law.
All of this comes as he faces the toughest re-election bid in his three-decade Senate career and as he reluctantly supports a candidate for president whom he has openly disparaged, and vice versa
The senator, this source surmised, likely expected a similar investment to help her re-election campaign in 2016.
Rubio has said repeatedly he is not running for re-election this fall.
Tammy Duckworth when she headed the Illinois Veterans Affairs Department set a trial date for August 15, which could disrupt her Senate campaign.