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Old 01-09-2021, 11:37 AM   #9047
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Originally Posted by wittynickname View Post
I'm wondering if this is a place where PA's Pat Toomey is finally somewhat useful. He's already announced he's not running for re-election in 2022, so it's a tossup seat regardless. I'm wondering if there are a few other GOP senators in the same boat. (To be fair I only really know Toomey's future plan so well because it's my home state)
Yeah, at least a couple others in a similar boat: Johnson from Wisconsin, Burr in North Carolina, plus Grassley in Iowa is in his late 80s and hasn't made a call either way but wouldn't be surprising if he didn't run again. But I can't see Johnson voting to impeach.

I think there's a lot of low profile "they'll do what Mitch (and their donors) tells them to do" senators. They probably need more in the neighbourhood of 20+ rather than 17, so nobody gets the heat of being the deciding vote.
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