{"id":606021,"date":"2021-07-29T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606021"},"modified":"2021-07-29T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T18:36:17","slug":"top-dem-recruit-for-missouri-senate-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-dem-recruit-for-missouri-senate-bows-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Dem Recruit for Missouri Senate Bows Out"},"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\">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%2Ftop-dem-recruit-for-missouri-senate-bows-out%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=606021&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--><div readability=\"28.377358490566\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Former governor Jay Nixon says he won&#8217;t run for Senate<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-511717490-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-511717490.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-511717490-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-511717490-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFormer Missouri governor Jay Nixon (D.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 July 29, 2021 2:18 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"64.266133637921\">\n<p>Jay Nixon, the former Democratic governor of Missouri, says he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2022, a major blow to Democrats who viewed him as their best chance of competing in the increasingly red midwest state.<\/p>\n<p>In a Thursday statement, Nixon said he &#8220;deeply appreciate[s] the many people who have reached out&#8221; asking him to run but will &#8220;choose a different path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have truly enjoyed the positive changes in my life and fitness since completing 30 consecutive years of public service,&#8221; Nixon said. &#8220;I am not running for U.S. Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both state and national party leaders saw Nixon as the best chance to pull off a long-shot win in Missouri. Two-term Republican senator Roy Blunt announced he will not run for reelection, giving Democrats a glimmer of hope in a state former president Donald Trump won by 15 points in November. A July Remington Research Group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eyokley\/status\/1416390716570341376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> found Nixon trailing potential Republican opponents by single digits in hypothetical matchups.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon is now the fourth prominent Missouri Democrat to decline to run for the seat. Former senator Claire McCaskill, failed gubernatorial candidate Nicole Galloway, and&nbsp; failed Senate candidate Jason Kander have already ruled out launching bids of their own. The party&#8217;s top candidates in the race, state senator Scott Sifton and self-described progressive Lucas Kunce, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/elections\/senate\/MO\/2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed to raise<\/a> the money needed to strike fear in Republicans. One veteran GOP operative in the state told the <em>Washington&nbsp;Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;that Sifton will struggle to challenge Republicans &#8220;with his measly $100k of cash on hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Missouri Democrats are such a dumpster fire that Governor Nixon won&#8217;t touch the race with a 10-foot pole,&#8221; the operative said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Former governor Jay Nixon says he won&#8217;t run for Senate  Former Missouri governor Jay Nixon (D.) \/ Getty Images  Collin Anderson \u2022 July &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606021","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\/606021","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606021\/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=606021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}