Delaware Senator Tom Carper Announces Retirement
Posted on AllSides May 22nd, 2023
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Democrat U.S. Senator Tom Carper of Delaware announced on Monday that he would not seek a fifth term in the upper chamber come 2024, leaving Democrats with an open seat to deal with in 2024. The 76-year-old Carper has been in the U.S. Senate since January 2001 and held public office since 1977, apparently enough time in office for him to "run through the tape" with a retirement before the start of the next Congress in 2025. The decision, Carper said on Monday, was reached through "a good deal of...
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