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What Happens to Franken’s Seat If He Resigns?
Al Franken isn’t up for re-election until 2020. But if he announces his resignation Thursday, the North Star State will be holding two Senate elections next fall.
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Al Franken isn’t up for re-election until 2020. But if he announces his resignation Thursday, the North Star State will be holding two Senate elections next fall.
Jeff Flake tweeted a picture of a $100 check made out to Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones’ campaign in Alabama.
And back in Nevada, some Democrats say Kihuen has no chance of winning re-election if he refuses to step aside.
Hatch had said his current term would be his last when he ran for re-election in 2012.
Ian Conyers was just elected to the state Senate last fall.
President Donald Trump formally endorsed a possible re-election bid by Sen. Orrin Hatch, calling the Utah Republican a “very special man” at the start of a speech in Salt Lake City.
To remind, Republicans hold 55 percent of the seats in the House and 52 percent in the Senate, plus 100 percent of the seats in the Oval Office.
. | Senate Republicans appear to have the votes necessary to approve their tax code overhaul.
A number of Senate Democrats running for re-election in 2018 announced this week they’re opposed to the GOP tax plan.
Frank LoBiondo’s decision not to seek re-election earlier this month prompted Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales to move the 2nd District from a Solid Republican to Leans Republican race.
McCaskill is one of the most vulnerable senators running for re-election in 2018. Trump won Missouri by 19 points in 2016.
He is expected to call out the Democrat over her opposition to the Senate tax plan, senior administration officials said.
The Senate when it wants to bring up its own tax bills must use a House revenue vehicle to ensure it doesn’t run afoul of the so-called origination clause.
But his former Senate colleagues remembered him as arrogant and pugnacious.
As he prepares to bring the first tax code re-write since 1986 to the Senate floor, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah is saying his Senate service might not be nearing its end.
He won re-election in 2012 by 18 points. He resigned in October after allegations of an extramarital affair and that he encouraged his mistress to seek an abortion.
Fred Upton announced Friday he will run for re-election instead of trying to challenge Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2018. “I will not be a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called for investigation into the allegations.
Ann Kirkpatrick, who vacated the 1st District to run for Senate in 2016, is now running in what could be an open seat if GOP Rep. Martha McSally jumps into the Senate race.
The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday begins in earnest its markup of the Republican bill to overhaul the U.S. tax code.