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In a state where every GOP representative won re-election by at least 30 points, Roby only won by 9 points, deepening speculation that she’ll face another primary in 2018. Rep.
-elect Chris Van Hollen of Maryland will chair the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the 2018 cycle, incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced Friday.
Chris Hansen will become the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s new executive director, installing the 34-year-old Republican operative as a key player for the Senate GOP as it tries to expand
The Alabama Republican, who declared at an April Senate hearing that “good people don’t smoke marijuana,” is one of Congress’s staunchest opponents of legalization.
Miller, who didn’t run for re-election, said he hasn’t spoken to the transition team but would give an offer “serious consideration.”
In two years, 10 Democratic senators will be up for re-election in states won by Donald Trump this year. In some cases, the discrepancy is dramatic. In 2012, Democratic Sen.
“He will run for re-election to the Senate in 2018 and serve his full term in the Senate — where, at the will of Virginia voters, he hopes to be for a very long time in the model of John Warner,”
Bob Kasten, including on the Wisconsin Republican’s unsuccessful 1992 re-election effort.
Sanders also spoke about his new position in the Democratic Senate caucus as chairman of outreach, which, he said, is important given the low voter participation in the last presidential election
Woodward in “The Agenda,” his account of the early days of the Clinton administration, depicts the president-elect sputtering in early 1993, “You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my re-election
The only thing standing between Senate Democrats and an electoral wipeout in 2018? Donald Trump’s base.
It mixes the wisdom of experience with the vigor of youth, at least in Senate years,” Schumer said.
In 2018, Senate Republicans will be defending eight seats, while Democrats have 25 incumbents up for re-election, including two independent senators who caucus with Democrats.
Mo Brooks told AL.com that he would ask Bentley to consider him for the seat if Sessions leaves the Senate and doesn’t have a preference for his replacement.
Hatch, a member of the Senate since 1977 and its president pro tempore, said after Wednesday’s leadership elections that he was getting significant pressure to seek an eighth term.
Comstock, re-elected to a second term last week, recalled being targeted early last year and working with Walden right away.
That’s it — no joke, that’s just what the Senate freshman class looks like, so far. The Louisiana Senate race to replace retiring Sen.
Stace Nelson, who was elected to the state Senate this year. He also ran for the U.S. Senate in 2014 and could run for the at-large seat.
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Bill Nelson faces re-election in 2018 and retiring two-term Republican Gov. Rick Scott could be his opponent.