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Obama Prods Kaine to Enter Race for Open Virginia Senate Seat
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| Last Edited | COSDem Mar 31, 2011 08:43pm |
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| News Date | Friday, April 1, 2011 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Barack Obama, addressing a small gathering of party donors in New York, gently nudged his Democratic National Committee chairman, Tim Kaine, to run for an open Senate seat in Virginia.
“Since he happened to be a really great governor of the commonwealth of Virginia, I suspect that, should he choose to do so, he would also be an outstanding senator from the commonwealth of Virginia,” Obama said, after Kaine introduced him to an audience of 50 donors who each paid $30,800 for dinner with the president.
Virginia Senator Jim Webb, a Democrat who won the seat in one of 2006’s most competitive races, said last month that he wouldn’t seek re-election. Republican George Allen, the incumbent senator whom Webb defeated, is already in the race, as is Republican Jamie Radtke, the Richmond Tea Party chairwoman.
In 2008, Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since 1964. Since then, though, voters have elected a Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, and captured two previously Democratic House seats.
“Whatever decision he makes, I just want everyone here to know that he has done an outstanding job for me,” Obama said at the Red Rooster restaurant in Harlem. |
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