Swordsmyth
10-06-2017, 09:57 PM
Last Wednesday morning, Senate Republican leaders received two pieces of bad news. The first came by way of Alabama, where the GOP's preferred candidate, Luther Strange, lost a Senate primary to Roy Moore, a fringe radical who believes he isn't bound by the American legal system.
The second was a retirement announcement from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). Not only are Senate Republican leaders sorry to see him leave -- Corker is a popular figure on Capitol Hill -- but GOP officials realized his departure would open the door to him being replaced by someone from the party's crackpot wing.
Almost immediately, several Republican senators reached out directly (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/politics/republicans-disarray-trump-senate-congress.html) to Tennessee Bill Gov. Haslam (R), who's wrapping up his second and final term, urging him to run. Yesterday, he officially declined (https://twitter.com/BillHaslam/status/915955409277652993).
Soon after, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), while attacking her party's Senate leadership (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/5/16430792/marsha-blackburn-senate-candidate-corker), announced she's running for the open Senate seat. The Tennessean reported (http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/05/u-s-rep-marsha-blackburn-launches-senate-bid-bob-corker-seat/708717001/?hootPostID=d97c20ee6581b14398f4f49a36140a76):
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is entering the 2018 U.S. Senate race to replace retiring Sen. Bob Corker, ending a week's worth of speculation and immediately catapulting her to front-runner status as others consider launching their own bids. [...]
"I know the left calls me a wingnut or a knuckle-dragging conservative. And you know what, I say that's alright, bring it on," Blackburn says in the nearly three-minute video.
More at: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/disappointing-gop-leaders-blackburn-launches-senate-campaign/amp
https://www.thenewamerican.com/freedom-index
Dist.7: Marsha Blackburn (https://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=828&nameid=B001243) - 63% :(
The second was a retirement announcement from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). Not only are Senate Republican leaders sorry to see him leave -- Corker is a popular figure on Capitol Hill -- but GOP officials realized his departure would open the door to him being replaced by someone from the party's crackpot wing.
Almost immediately, several Republican senators reached out directly (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/politics/republicans-disarray-trump-senate-congress.html) to Tennessee Bill Gov. Haslam (R), who's wrapping up his second and final term, urging him to run. Yesterday, he officially declined (https://twitter.com/BillHaslam/status/915955409277652993).
Soon after, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), while attacking her party's Senate leadership (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/5/16430792/marsha-blackburn-senate-candidate-corker), announced she's running for the open Senate seat. The Tennessean reported (http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/05/u-s-rep-marsha-blackburn-launches-senate-bid-bob-corker-seat/708717001/?hootPostID=d97c20ee6581b14398f4f49a36140a76):
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is entering the 2018 U.S. Senate race to replace retiring Sen. Bob Corker, ending a week's worth of speculation and immediately catapulting her to front-runner status as others consider launching their own bids. [...]
"I know the left calls me a wingnut or a knuckle-dragging conservative. And you know what, I say that's alright, bring it on," Blackburn says in the nearly three-minute video.
More at: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/disappointing-gop-leaders-blackburn-launches-senate-campaign/amp
https://www.thenewamerican.com/freedom-index
Dist.7: Marsha Blackburn (https://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=828&nameid=B001243) - 63% :(