RandallFan
03-12-2015, 05:20 PM
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/03/11/tom_cotton_2020_new_law_would_let_arkansas_senator _run_for_both_senate_and.html
Under current law, Cotton would need to give up his Senate seat after one term to run in the 2020 GOP primary, since he will be up for re-election that year and Arkansas forbids candidates from appearing for more than one federal office on the same ballot.
If the change becomes law, Cotton would avoid an obstacle that has threatened to trip up his Senate colleague Rand Paul (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/02/18/rand_paul_2016_election_law_how_kentucky_senator_c an_run_for_re_election.html), whose presidential aspirations are more immediate and whose state legislature is evidently less cooperative. Paul has been unable to secure a change in Kentucky law that keeps him from running for two federal offices at once in 2016, a wrinkle that has the Kentucky GOP planning a caucus to avoid putting Paul on an actual ballot (http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/rand-paul/2015/03/07/gop-grants-preliminary-caucus-approval-paul/24571167/) and, in theory, allowing Paul to run for the Senate and the White House in the same election.
Maybe Tom Cotton will be used to attack incumbent or candidate Rand on amnesty or something like that in 2020.
Under current law, Cotton would need to give up his Senate seat after one term to run in the 2020 GOP primary, since he will be up for re-election that year and Arkansas forbids candidates from appearing for more than one federal office on the same ballot.
If the change becomes law, Cotton would avoid an obstacle that has threatened to trip up his Senate colleague Rand Paul (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/02/18/rand_paul_2016_election_law_how_kentucky_senator_c an_run_for_re_election.html), whose presidential aspirations are more immediate and whose state legislature is evidently less cooperative. Paul has been unable to secure a change in Kentucky law that keeps him from running for two federal offices at once in 2016, a wrinkle that has the Kentucky GOP planning a caucus to avoid putting Paul on an actual ballot (http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/rand-paul/2015/03/07/gop-grants-preliminary-caucus-approval-paul/24571167/) and, in theory, allowing Paul to run for the Senate and the White House in the same election.
Maybe Tom Cotton will be used to attack incumbent or candidate Rand on amnesty or something like that in 2020.