A three-term United States senator will not seek reelection.
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., confirmed the news Monday morning. Pundits expect the vacancy will spark a free-for-all Democratic Party primary in the deep blue state.
The Washington Post reports:
Cardin, 79, has been a fixture in Maryland politics for decades, building a reputation as a serious, reserved legislator who gravitates toward complex policy issues and avoids the kind of show-horse politicking of some of his peers. His retirement is likely to create a highly competitive Democratic primary to replace him.
Democrats have been trying to stem retirements of popular longtime senators ahead of what is expected to be a tough electoral map for Senate Democrats in 2024. Maryland Republicans have not won a Senate seat since the 1980s. But Democrats aren't taking anything for granted, wary of the potential of a Larry Hogan-esque moderate Republican emerging as a GOP nominee.
Cardin, who has served in the Senate since 2007, has comfortably won reelection in every race since then.
He began his career in the Maryland General Assembly in the 1960s, running his first campaign while he was still in law school in 1966, before climbing the ranks to House speaker in 1979. Public service ran in the family. A third-generation Marylander from Baltimore and the grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Cardin filled the seat in the State House vacated by his uncle and was the son of a state lawmaker who became a judge.
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Of course, the Washington Compost, a den of leftist, commie, swamp rats, gives the lame Cardin a glowing review. Don’t believe any of that garbage- it makes me wanna puke. I was so hoping that a RINO in a red state was retiring so that he/she could be replaced by a solid Republican. No hope of getting a good conservative in the People’s Republic of Maryland.
good, take more of the commie dems with you.
Hooray awesome
Oh wonderful – as if Cardin wasn’t bad enough, my state will end up with Jamie Raskin.
WHY IS THE GOP, WHO IS THE ,”KEEPER OF THE PURSE”, NOT {{DEFUNDING}}” EVERY DEMORAT DEPT/ OFFICE ETC. TO PUT A STOP TO THEIR RUNNING RAMPANT OVER AMERICA/AMERICANS?
WHY DOES THE SUPREME COURT DO NOTHING TO PUT A STOP TO ALL THE TRAVESTIES BEING DONE BY THE DEMS AGAINST OUR CONSTITUTION, WHICH THEY ALL TOOK AN OATH TO UPHOLD? IS THE GIVEN OATH JUST A SHOW? A MEMORY OF THE PAST?
WHY DOES THE GOP, CONTINUE TO PUT UP WITH, “”RINOS””? THE DEMS DON’T. IN FACT THE REASON WHY THE DEMS WIN, IS BECAUSE AS BAD AS , THEY DO STICK TOGETHER. RINOS ARE JUST AS BAD AS THE FAKE NEWS, WHCIH IS HURTING AMERICA/AMERICANS. THIS NEEDS TOBE ADDRESSED ASAP, DON’T LET IT CONTINUE ON TO FESTER, AND BECOME EVEN BIGGER THAN IT ALREADY IS.