{"id":2031466,"date":"2023-09-14T07:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-senators-undecided-about-reelection\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T07:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:27:45","slug":"the-last-senators-undecided-about-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-senators-undecided-about-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"undecided senators on 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\">8<\/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%2Fthe-last-senators-undecided-about-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=2031466&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--><h2>Questions Remain for\u2064 Undecided \u2063Incumbent \u200dSenators<\/h2>\n<p>After \u200bSen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) announced \u200bWednesday\u200b that he will retire at the end of \u2063his\u2063 term, \u200dquestions remain \u200cabout three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/and-then-there-were-three-the-last-senators-undecided-about-reelection-in-2024\/\" title=\"Three senators remain undecided about seeking reelection in 2024.\">undecided incumbent senators<\/a> up for reelection\u2064 next year who\u2064 have not made their plans clear.<\/p>\n<h3>Sens. Bernie Sanders\u200c (I-VT),\u2064 Joe Manchin (D-WV),\u2062 and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)<\/h3>\n<p>Sens. \u2063Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Joe \u2063Manchin (D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema\u2062 (I-AZ)\u200c have remained evasive about whether they will run again. \u200cWhile \u2064Sanders hails from deep blue Vermont, all eyes are on Manchin and \u200cSinema, whose decisions could determine whether Republicans retake the chamber. Senate \u2064Democrats are defending \u2064a\u200d small two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-outraise-democrats-across-the-board-in-january\/\" title=\"Republicans Outraise Democrats Across the Board in January\">-seat majority<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Sen. Bernie\u200b Sanders (I-VT)<\/h3>\n<p>Sanders, an \u2064independent who caucuses with\u200c the Democrats, still \u2062has not indicated whether he intends to run for \u2064a fourth term.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old doesn\u2019t appear\u2063 to be slowing \u2063down anytime soon. Sanders is the \u200bchairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, \u2063and Pensions, giving him broad jurisdiction\u200d over concerns\u2062 at the center of his previous campaigns, such as\u2064 workers&#8217; rights, the \u200bcost of prescription\u200c drugs, and access to healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>However, a debate about the age of political \u2062leaders has been building for months. It came to the forefront again a\u200c couple of \u2062weeks ago when Senate Minority Leader Mitch \u2063McConnell (R-KY) \u2062appeared to freeze for \u206430 seconds while answering questions\u200c from reporters, the second such incident this summer. If Sanders runs again, he will be\u200d 89 \u200dat the end of his fourth term.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Sanders\u200b and his\u2062 staff continue to fend off the \u200creelection questions. The Vermont senator\u2063 has indicated to reporters who ask \u200chim\u2063 that he thinks it\u200b is a distraction.<\/p>\n<h3>Sen.\u2064 Joe\u200d Manchin (D-WV)<\/h3>\n<p>The West\u200b Virginia Democrat has \u200bstill not\u2063 announced whether he will be\u2064 running for reelection in 2024\u200c in a ruby red state\u2064 President Joe Biden lost by 40 points last cycle. Manchin has openly flirted \u200cwith a third-party run \u2063for president in 2024.\u2063 Weeks ago, he said he was considering changing his \u200cparty \u200baffiliation from Democrat to independent.<\/p>\n<p>Behind closed \u200cdoors, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has encouraged him to run. \u2064Most Democrats recognize Manchin is perhaps the \u200donly Democrat who can win a statewide\u2063 contest in West Virginia, a key to preserving the \u200dparty\u2019s control of the Senate. Manchin recently told the New York Times\u200b he would make a decision about his political\u2062 future by \u2064the end of the year. If \u2064he intends \u200cto \u2063run again, he\u200c must inform the state by January.<\/p>\n<p>The National Republican Senatorial\u200b Committee is eyeing Manchin\u2019s\u2064 seat as \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-senators-undecided-about-reelection\/\" title=\"undecided senators on reelection\">top pickup\u200b opportunity<\/a> next year to flip the Senate from Democratic to GOP control, attempting to frame his position\u2064 as \u201cattempts to rewrite history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should Manchin decide to run,\u200d he could face popular Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) or Rep. Alex Mooney \u2064(R-WV), who are\u2062 currently competing in a\u200d Republican primary. A poll last week for\u200b the \u2062West Virginia Chamber of Commerce showed Justice beating \u2062Manchin handily, winning in a hypothetical Senate \u2062contest 51% to 38%. The poll also \u200cfound that Manchin would narrowly lead Mooney 45% to 41%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still \u200bdon\u2019t\u200b think he\u200c knows what he is \u200cgoing to do,\u201d said\u2063 a former aide of the senator, speaking on the\u200c condition \u2063of anonymity. \u201cI think he\u2019ll\u200d do exactly what\u2062 he did last time: wait until December or January to make up his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin has raised \u2062$1.3 million\u2064 during the\u200c second quarter and has\u200c more \u200bthan $10 million in the\u200c bank. That\u2019s more than Justice, who\u200d raised $935,035 from\u200d 5,526 individual\u200c donors, and Mooney, who raised $411,192.76 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<h3>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema\u200d (I-AZ)<\/h3>\n<p>Sinema has not yet said if she is running for a\u200d second term after leaving the Democratic Party late last year and becoming an independent. She was the first Democrat to\u200d win an Arizona seat in 30 years in 2018. She has spent most of the Biden presidency at \u2062odds with progressives \u200con filibuster reform, corporate\u2062 taxes, and other \u2064issues.<\/p>\n<p>If she were \u2064to run, she could face \u200ca potential three-way \u200crace with Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), the\u200b progressive likely Democratic nominee\u2062 who announced his \u2063run in January, \u2064and Kari Lake, a polarizing conservative who lost her election for governor last year. The state is 34% Republican, 34% independent, and 30% Democratic, according \u2062to Arizona data.<\/p>\n<p>Lake has \u200dnot yet launched her bid. If she runs, she will likely \u2064face off against Blake Masters, who recently indicated he\u2019s preparing \u200dto\u2062 run for the seat held by Sinema. \u200dThe only Republican in the \u200crace so far, Pinal County Sheriff Mark \u2064Lamb, announced his candidacy in April but is considered an underdog who\u200c has yet to raise \u2064significant money.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema has nearly \u200c$10.8 million \u2062in her bank account, almost three times\u2063 more than Gallego. However, Gallego brought\u2064 in $3.1 million from April 1 through June 30. Lamb reported raising $608,000 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell in May indicated \u200dRepublicans are still assessing the Arizona Senate race and voiced some hesitation about whether the GOP wants to invest resources. In\u200c an interview with CNN \u2063in May, he emphasized that \u200bRepublicans will likely wait to see what happens in the primary before they decide to engage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK \u2062HERE TO READ \u200bMORE\u200d FROM THE\u200c WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) will retire, leaving uncertainty about three incumbent senators. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) have not revealed their reelection plans, raising questions about their future in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2031467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2031466","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}