{"id":2031481,"date":"2023-09-14T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-senators-undecided-about-re-election\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T07:46:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:46:36","slug":"the-last-senators-undecided-about-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-senators-undecided-about-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Undecided senators on re-election."},"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-re-election%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=2031481&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 Undecided Incumbent Senators<\/h2>\n<p>After Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end\u200c of his term, questions remain about 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\u2063 next year who have not made their plans clear.<\/p>\n<h3>Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)<\/h3>\n<p>Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and \u2063Kyrsten Sinema\u200d (I-AZ) have remained evasive about whether they will run again. While Sanders hails from deep blue Vermont, all eyes are on Manchin and Sinema, whose decisions could determine whether Republicans retake\u2062 the chamber. Senate Democrats are defending a small two-seat majority.<\/p>\n<h3>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)<\/h3>\n<p>Sanders, an \u200cindependent who caucuses with the Democrats, still \u2063has not indicated whether he intends to run\u200b for a fourth term.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old doesn\u2019t appear to be slowing down\u200b anytime soon. Sanders is the chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, giving him broad\u200b jurisdiction over\u2064 concerns at the center\u2062 of his previous campaigns, such as workers&#8217; rights, the cost of prescription drugs, and access to healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>However, a \u200cdebate about \u2064the age of political leaders has\u200c been building for months. It came to the forefront \u2062again\u200c a couple of weeks ago when Senate Minority \u200dLeader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appeared to freeze for 30\u200d seconds\u2062 while answering questions from reporters, the second such incident this summer. If Sanders runs again, he will \u200dbe 89\u2064 at the end of his\u200b fourth \u200cterm.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Sanders and his staff continue to \u200cfend off the reelection\u2063 questions. The Vermont \u2063senator has\u2064 indicated to reporters who\u2064 ask him that he thinks it is a distraction.<\/p>\n<h3>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)<\/h3>\n<p>The West Virginia \u2063Democrat has still not announced \u2062whether he will be running for reelection \u200din 2024 in \u200ca ruby red state President Joe Biden lost by \u206340 points last cycle. Manchin has openly flirted with a third-party run for president in 2024. Weeks ago, \u200bhe said he was considering changing his party\u200b affiliation\u2064 from Democrat to independent.<\/p>\n<p>Behind closed doors, Senate \u2064Majority\u200c Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has encouraged him to run. \u2062Most Democrats recognize Manchin is perhaps the only Democrat who can win a statewide contest in West Virginia, a key to preserving\u2064 the party\u2019s control of the Senate. Manchin\u2064 recently told the New York Times he would make a decision about his political \u200bfuture by the end of the \u2064year. If he \u200dintends \u200dto run again, he must inform the state by January.<\/p>\n<p>The National Republican Senatorial Committee is eyeing Manchin\u2019s seat as a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-does-delicate-dance-with-democrats-as-he-considers-political-future\/\" title=\"Manchin treads carefully with Democrats while pondering political future.\">top pickup opportunity<\/a> next \u200cyear to flip the Senate from Democratic to GOP control, attempting to frame his \u2062position as \u201cattempts to \u2062rewrite history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should Manchin decide to run, he could face popular Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) or Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV), who are \u200bcurrently \u2062competing in a \u200bRepublican\u200d primary. A poll last \u200cweek for the West Virginia Chamber \u2063of Commerce showed Justice beating Manchin handily, winning in a hypothetical Senate contest 51% to 38%. The poll also found that Manchin would narrowly \u200blead Mooney 45% to 41%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still\u200b don\u2019t think he knows what he is going to do,\u201d said a \u2064former aide of the senator, speaking on the condition of \u2062anonymity. \u201cI \u2062think he\u2019ll do exactly what he did last\u2062 time: wait until December or January to make up \u200dhis mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin has raised $1.3 million during \u200cthe\u2062 second quarter and \u200chas more than $10 \u2062million in the bank. That\u2019s more than Justice, who raised $935,035 \u2063from 5,526 individual 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\u2063 has not\u2064 yet said if she is running for a second \u200cterm after leaving the Democratic Party late last\u2063 year and becoming an independent. She was\u200c the first Democrat to win an Arizona seat\u200d in 30 years in 2018. She\u200d has spent most of the Biden presidency at odds with progressives on filibuster reform, corporate taxes, and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>If she were to run, she could face a potential three-way race with Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), the progressive likely Democratic nominee who announced\u200c his run in January, and Kari Lake, a polarizing conservative\u2064 who lost her election for governor last year. The state is 34% Republican, 34% independent, and 30% Democratic, according to Arizona data.<\/p>\n<p>Lake has not yet launched her\u2062 bid. If she runs, she will likely face off against \u200cBlake\u2063 Masters, who recently indicated he\u2019s\u2064 preparing to run for the seat held by Sinema. The only Republican in\u2064 the\u200d race so \u2063far, Pinal County \u200cSheriff Mark Lamb, announced his candidacy in April but is considered an underdog who has yet to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-senators-undecided-about-re-election\/\" title=\"Undecided senators on re-election.\">raise significant money<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema has nearly $10.8 million in her bank account, almost three times more than\u2062 Gallego. However, Gallego brought in $3.1 million from April 1 through June 30. Lamb \u200creported\u200b raising $608,000 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell in May indicated Republicans are still assessing the Arizona Senate race and voiced some hesitation about whether\u200c the GOP wants to invest resources. In an\u200d interview with\u200c CNN in May, he\u200b emphasized that Republicans \u2062will likely \u2062wait to see what happens in the primary before they decide to engage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM\u2063 THE 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":2031482,"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-2031481","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\/2031481","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=2031481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}