NM-SEN: Tom Udall will not seek re-election.

Sen. Tom Udall said Monday that he will not run for re-election in 2020.

The Democrat’s announcement upends New Mexico politics, signaling the end of his tenure as a leading voice in Congress on environmental and indigenous issues and igniting what will likely be a pile-on of a campaign to succeed him on Capitol Hill.

Udall did not provide any specific reason for forgoing a run for a third term. But speculation has swirled for months that the former state attorney general and congressman, now 70, would bow out.

“The worst thing anyone in public office can do is believe the office belongs to them, rather than to the people they represent,” Udall said in a statement.

Udall went on to lay out a series of priorities for the remainder of his term, including climate change, election reform and an overhaul of campaign finance laws.



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