{"id":1015878,"date":"2021-11-15T16:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015878"},"modified":"2021-11-15T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T21:29:05","slug":"vermont-democrat-sen-patrick-leahy-will-not-seek-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vermont-democrat-sen-patrick-leahy-will-not-seek-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy Will Not Seek Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvermont-democrat-sen-patrick-leahy-will-not-seek-reelection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015878&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sen.&nbsp;Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the&nbsp;most senior member of the Senate, announced Monday he will not seek a ninth term, setting the stage for a potentially large field of candidates running to&nbsp;succeed the 81-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-business-vermont-senate-elections-elections-1f7dcd3c411a1e423c480cb5e58f63a2\">reported<\/a> that&nbsp;Leahy said he and his wife \u201cconcluded\u201d&nbsp;that \u201cit is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter who will carry on this work for our great state. It\u2019s time to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Leahy, first elected to the Senate in 1974, added,&nbsp;\u201cI know I have been there for my state when I was needed most. I know I have taken our best ideas and helped them grow. I brought Vermont\u2019s voice to the United States Senate and Vermont values across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats will have to scramble to find a suitable candidate to replace Leahy since his retirement will create the&nbsp;first vacancy in the state\u2019s&nbsp;congressional delegation since 2006 \u2014 which could be the opportunity some Democrats have been looking for to seek higher education office.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Dickinson, a political science professor from Vermont, told the AP that one likely choice to replace the outgoing senator would be the state\u2019s only congressional member, Democrat&nbsp;Rep. Peter Welch (VT).&nbsp;\u201cI think he would be the logical candidate, and that would set up the musical chairs about who replaces him in Congress,\u201d Dickinson said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, if&nbsp;Welch runs for Senate, it would leave his seat wide open for another potentially brutal battle for state Democrats looking to run for a position as well, also giving Republicans a chance at an open Senate and House seat.<\/p>\n<p>This could also give self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the state\u2019s other senator, a chance to endorse and help elect a far-left candidate of his choosing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12877082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/49625471376_f899c66f3e_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12877082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/49625471376_f899c66f3e_o.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona (Gage Skidmore\/Flickr).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) chair <span class=\"rollover-people\">Gary Peters (D-MI),<\/span>&nbsp;in a statement touting the state electing a Democrat to statewide federal office, discounting that the state has also elected a Republican for governor, who has been in office since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVermont is a blue state that has not elected a Republican to statewide federal office in more than 20 years, and Democrats look forward to winning this Senate seat in 2022,\u201d<span class=\"rollover-people\">&nbsp;Peters <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/581535-sen-patrick-leahy-wont-seek-reelection?userid=770802&amp;rl=1\">said<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the\u00a0most senior member of the Senate, announced Monday he will not seek a ninth term, setting the stage for a potentially large field of candidates running to\u00a0succeed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}