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Exclusive: Sen. Bob Corker is NOT running for reelection
Corker decides against reelection bid, sticks with retirement
The decision, relayed by his chief of staff in an interview with POLITICO, ends months of speculation about the senator’s future.
By Meredith Hoffman
Sen. Bob Corker is pictured. | Getty Images
Corker decides against reelection bid, sticks with retirement
The decision, relayed by his chief of staff in an interview with POLITICO, ends months of speculation about the senator’s future.
By BURGESS EVERETT
02/27/2018 10:24 AM EST
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) will not run for reelection after reconsidering his decision last fall to retire, his chief of staff said Tuesday.
After listening to some Tennessee Republicans and GOP senators who were privately urging him to run, the two-term senator and Foreign Relations Committee chairman decided that this will be his last year as senator, said Todd Womack, Corker’s chief of staff. The move ends a period of intense speculation in Tennessee and Washington about Corker’s future and avoids what could have been an ugly primary between Corker and Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn.
“He’s always believed and served as though he were only going to be in the Senate for two terms,” Womack said in an interview. “And he was willing to listen to folks but he really believes the decision he made in September was the right one and is going to be leaving the Senate at the end of the year.”
Corker has been speaking to President Donald Trump with some frequency in recent weeks after a tense back-and-forth between the two last fall. The White House made clear to the senator’s team that the president would not get involved in a potential primary between Corker and Blackburn, according to a source familiar with the conversations.
Republican strategists believe Corker might have needed an endorsement from Trump to reenter the race and beat Blackburn. Corker’s numbers among Republicans took a hit after the October row, when Trump dubbed the Tennessee senator “Liddle Bob Corker” and “incompetent” after Corker called the White House an “adult day care center” and worried that Trump was putting the United States “on the path to World War III.”
More: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/corker-tennessee-senate-retirement-midterms-423573
The decision, relayed by his chief of staff in an interview with POLITICO, ends months of speculation about the senator’s future.
By Meredith Hoffman
Sen. Bob Corker is pictured. | Getty Images
Corker decides against reelection bid, sticks with retirement
The decision, relayed by his chief of staff in an interview with POLITICO, ends months of speculation about the senator’s future.
By BURGESS EVERETT
02/27/2018 10:24 AM EST
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) will not run for reelection after reconsidering his decision last fall to retire, his chief of staff said Tuesday.
After listening to some Tennessee Republicans and GOP senators who were privately urging him to run, the two-term senator and Foreign Relations Committee chairman decided that this will be his last year as senator, said Todd Womack, Corker’s chief of staff. The move ends a period of intense speculation in Tennessee and Washington about Corker’s future and avoids what could have been an ugly primary between Corker and Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn.
“He’s always believed and served as though he were only going to be in the Senate for two terms,” Womack said in an interview. “And he was willing to listen to folks but he really believes the decision he made in September was the right one and is going to be leaving the Senate at the end of the year.”
Corker has been speaking to President Donald Trump with some frequency in recent weeks after a tense back-and-forth between the two last fall. The White House made clear to the senator’s team that the president would not get involved in a potential primary between Corker and Blackburn, according to a source familiar with the conversations.
Republican strategists believe Corker might have needed an endorsement from Trump to reenter the race and beat Blackburn. Corker’s numbers among Republicans took a hit after the October row, when Trump dubbed the Tennessee senator “Liddle Bob Corker” and “incompetent” after Corker called the White House an “adult day care center” and worried that Trump was putting the United States “on the path to World War III.”
More: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/corker-tennessee-senate-retirement-midterms-423573
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