{"id":1817670,"date":"2023-01-20T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817670"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:50:52","slug":"tim-kaine-puts-an-end-to-retirement-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-kaine-puts-an-end-to-retirement-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Kaine Puts An End To Retirement Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Ftim-kaine-puts-an-end-to-retirement-rumors%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=1817670&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-->\n<p>Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA, ended all speculation about the future of his political career by announcing that in 2024 he would run for a third term in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>During Friday&#8217;s appearance in Richmond, the 64-year-old lawmaker spoke out while standing beside his wife Anne Holton (ex-Virginia Education Secretary), to make his plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to announce that I\u2019m going to run for a third term in the Senate,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/kaine-to-run-for-senate-reelection\/article_fe7b8e72-98d4-11ed-a766-07c735ed128e.html#tracking-source=home-top-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaine told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a servant. I love Virginia. I\u2019m proud of what I\u2019ve done. I\u2019ve got a whole lot more to do,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>Reports claimed that there had been a misunderstanding about his announcement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/19\/tim-kaine-democrats-term-00078684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing anxiety in the Democratic Party<\/a> There is a possibility of a vacant seat if Kaine does not seek re-election for a sixth-year term. The Democrats lost control in the midterm elections of 2022 and now hold a tenuous grip on the Senate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/history\/partydiv.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three independents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kaine boasts a lengthy resume that includes roles such as Virginia governor, chairman, Democratic National Committee chair, and mayor, Richmond. He also served as Hillary Clinton\u2019s running mate in her failed 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia was more liberal in several elections. However, Republicans proved that they have staying power in 2021 with statewide victories which included Governor Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s election (R).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, the success of Governor Youngkin and the statewide ticket in \u201921 shows you that, hey, Virginians will vote for Republicans in statewide elections,\u201d Kaine stated, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-united-states-government-2022-midterm-elections-tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-bd7a4e8cf7dd77123089c63205e5e694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cNobody can take that for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans argued Kaine\u2019s Senate seat is in play next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirginians have shown they\u2019re willing to vote Republican with the right candidate and the right political environment,\u201d Maggie Abboud is the National Republican Senatorial Committee&#8217;s spokeswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/virginia-democratic-sen-tim-kaine-run-re-election-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Fox News<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep a close eye on Virginia and focus on recruiting a strong candidate who can raise the resources necessary to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) ended speculation about his political future by announcing he will run for a third Senate term in 2024. The 64-year-old lawmaker made his plans known while standing next to his wife, former Virginia Education Secretary Anne Holton, during an appearance Friday in Richmond. \u201cI\u2019m very happy to announce that I\u2019m going &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1817673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,15835,7620,7350,8301,6195],"class_list":["post-1817670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-kaine","tag-retirement","tag-rumors","tag-tim","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817670","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}