We’ve got two potential challengers to Lamar Alexander’s senate seat. I don’t know enough about them to be able to have a preference but they both look, at least on the surface, to be plausible opponents.
Mike McWherter, a Jackson, Tenn.-based beer distributor and son of former Gov. Ned McWherter, and Bob Tuke, the Nashville lawyer who was until recently the state Democratic Party chairman, both confirmed Tuesday that they’re considering the race.
We’re still hurting in Kansas, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Wyoming, but it’s good to know we have a strategy in the Volunteer State. Meanwhile, the Republicans continue to come up empty in their search for an opponent for Mary Landrieu.
On the House side, some good news in that Luis Gutierrez has decided not to retire, while former chairwoman of the Republican Conference, Deborah Pryce, has come to the opposite conclusion. And the Dems are on offense, trying to force more retirements. Dennis Hastert will hang up his wrestling shoes tomorrow. Cillizza has some thoughts.
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