{"id":2031500,"date":"2023-09-14T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-senators-undecided-about-reelection-2\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:05:43","slug":"the-last-senators-undecided-about-reelection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-senators-undecided-about-reelection-2\/","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-2%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=2031500&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\u200b Remain for Undecided \u200bIncumbent Senators<\/h2>\n<p>After Sen. Mitt \u2062Romney (R-UT) announced \u2064Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term, questions remain\u2064 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 next year who have\u200c not made\u2062 their plans clear.<\/p>\n<h3>Sens. \u200dBernie Sanders (I-VT), Joe Manchin (D-WV),\u2062 and\u200d Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)<\/h3>\n<p>Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Joe\u2064 Manchin (D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) have remained evasive about whether\u200b they will \u2062run again. While Sanders hails from deep blue Vermont, all eyes are on Manchin and \u2063Sinema, whose decisions could determine whether Republicans retake the chamber. Senate \u2062Democrats are defending a small two-seat majority.<\/p>\n<h3>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)<\/h3>\n<p>Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, still has not indicated whether he intends to run for a fourth term.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old doesn\u2019t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. Sanders is the\u2064 chairman of \u2064the Committee on Health, Education,\u2063 Labor, and Pensions, giving \u2063him broad jurisdiction over concerns \u200dat\u200c the center of his previous campaigns, such as workers&#8217; rights,\u2063 the\u200c cost of prescription\u200b drugs, and access\u200d to\u200d healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>However, a debate about the age of political leaders has been building for months. It came to the forefront again a couple of weeks ago when \u200bSenate \u200dMinority Leader Mitch\u200d McConnell (R-KY) appeared \u200dto freeze for 30 seconds while answering questions \u2063from reporters, the second such incident\u2064 this summer. \u200bIf Sanders \u2064runs again, he will be\u2064 89 at the end of his fourth term.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Sanders\u200b and his staff continue to fend\u200d off the reelection questions.\u200c The Vermont senator \u200dhas indicated to reporters who ask him that\u200c he\u200c thinks it is a\u200d distraction.<\/p>\n<h3>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)<\/h3>\n<p>The West Virginia Democrat has still not announced whether he \u2064will be \u200drunning for reelection in \u20622024 in a ruby red state President Joe Biden lost by 40 points\u200d last cycle. Manchin has openly flirted with\u2063 a third-party run for president in 2024. Weeks ago, he said he was considering changing his\u200d party affiliation from Democrat to independent.<\/p>\n<p>Behind closed doors, Senate Majority Leader Chuck \u200bSchumer (D-NY) has encouraged\u2063 him to run. Most Democrats recognize Manchin is perhaps the\u2064 only Democrat who can win a \u200bstatewide contest in\u200b West Virginia, \u200ca key to preserving the party\u2019s control of the \u200bSenate.\u200c Manchin recently told the New York Times he would make a decision about his political future by the\u200d end \u2062of the year. If he intends to \u2062run again, he must inform the state by January.<\/p>\n<p>The National Republican\u200d Senatorial Committee is eyeing Manchin\u2019s seat as a <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 year to flip the \u200dSenate from \u2064Democratic to GOP control, attempting to frame his position as \u201cattempts to rewrite history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should \u200bManchin decide to run, he \u2062could\u200c face popular Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) or Rep. \u200cAlex \u2063Mooney (R-WV), who are currently competing \u200cin\u200c a Republican\u200c primary.\u2064 A poll last week for the West Virginia Chamber of \u200cCommerce showed \u200bJustice beating\u2063 Manchin handily, winning \u200cin a hypothetical Senate contest 51% to 38%. The poll also found that Manchin would narrowly lead \u2063Mooney 45% to \u206441%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still don\u2019t think he knows what he is going to do,\u201d said a former aide of the senator, speaking on the condition of anonymity. \u201cI think he\u2019ll do exactly what \u2064he did last time: wait until December or January to make\u200b up his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin has raised $1.3 million during the second quarter and has more than $10 million in \u2063the \u200cbank. That\u2019s more than\u2062 Justice, who raised $935,035 from 5,526 individual donors, and Mooney, who raised $411,192.76 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<h3>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)<\/h3>\n<p>Sinema has not yet said if she is running for a second term after leaving the Democratic Party late last year and becoming an independent. She was the\u200c first Democrat to win an Arizona seat \u200bin 30 years in 2018. \u2062She has spent most \u2064of the Biden presidency at odds with\u2064 progressives on \u200dfilibuster \u200creform, corporate taxes, and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>If she were \u200dto \u200crun, she could face\u200d a potential \u2064three-way race with Rep. Ruben Gallego\u200b (D-AZ), \u200bthe progressive likely Democratic nominee who announced his run\u200c in\u200b January, and Kari Lake, a \u200cpolarizing conservative who \u2062lost her election for governor last year. The state is 34% Republican, 34% independent, \u2063and 30% \u2063Democratic, according to Arizona\u200d data.<\/p>\n<p>Lake has not yet launched her bid. If she runs, she will likely face off against Blake Masters, who recently indicated he\u2019s preparing to run for the seat held\u2064 by\u200c Sinema. The only Republican in the\u2063 race so far, Pinal County Sheriff Mark\u200b Lamb, announced \u200bhis candidacy in April\u200d but is considered an underdog who has yet\u200d 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 \u200b$10.8 million\u200c in her \u2062bank account, almost three \u200btimes more than Gallego. However, Gallego brought in \u2063$3.1 million from April 1 \u2062through June 30. Lamb reported raising $608,000 in the\u2063 second\u200d quarter.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell \u2063in\u2064 May indicated Republicans are still assessing the Arizona Senate race and\u200b voiced \u200bsome hesitation about whether the GOP wants to invest resources. In an\u2062 interview with \u200dCNN in May, he emphasized that Republicans will likely\u2063 wait to see what happens in the primary before they decide to engage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK\u2063 HERE TO READ MORE FROM 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":2031501,"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-2031500","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\/2031500","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=2031500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}