Rob Portman becomes third Republican senator not to seek 2022 re-election

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GOP senators Richard Burr of North Carolina and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania have also said they won't run again in 2022.

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Senator Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, became the third GOP senator to announce he will not seek re-election in 2022.campaign that it would be his last time running for the Senate and that he would retire at the end of his term, which concludes in 2022. Senator Pat Toomey, a 59-year-old Pennsylvania Republican, similarly announced last October that he would not be running for another term.

Portman, 65, announced Monday morning that he will not seek to retain his seat in 2022, citing his concerns about"partisan gridlock." "This was not an easy decision because representing the people of Ohio has been the greatest honor of my career," the GOP lawmaker said in a statement emailed toSenator Rob Portman announced Monday he won't run for re-election in 2022. Here the Ohio Republican speaks during a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. on January 19.

"We live in an increasingly polarized country where members of both parties are being pushed further to the right and further to the left, and that means too few people who are actively looking to find common ground," he said. Portman was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and was subsequently re-elected in 2016. Prior to that the Republican politician was first elected to the House of Representatives in a 1993 special election, and continued to serve in the lower chamber of

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buh bye

Ok...so...three Republican senate seats will be up for grabs in 2022...it will be very telling, depending on who wins those seats (Republican or Democrat), on whether Trump and Trumpism stays strong and rises OR whether it's on a steady decline !!!

Maybe in the time he's still there he will find the courage to speak up about what's going on in his party that caused him to make this decision......jk

Now that swamp is draining.

I agree but hate that level headed Republicans are going to be replaced with Q crazies and conspiracy theorists. This is not a good thing

Term limits for all those without sense to retire at a reasonable age and who are continuing to serve in their 80s and beyond!! PowerCorrupts

DNC - open season for replacements!!!

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