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GOP Senate Candidate in Pennsylvania Says She Will Back Congressional Term Limits
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Kathy Barnette, the Pennsylvania Republican who recently launched her campaign for the U.S. Senate, told The Epoch Times that she supports limiting the number of terms lawmakers can serve in Congress and committed to serving a maximum of three terms herself.
“I intend to only run for no more than three,” Barnette said.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), the retiring lawmaker whose seat Barnette is running to fill, was one of six Republicans who introduced a bill earlier this year to amend the Constitution to limit the number of terms lawmakers can serve. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has led the charge on term limits since 2016 when he and then-Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) announced their intention to introduce a bicameral term limit bill. DeSantis is now the governor of Florida.
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Sean Parnell in September 2020, as a congressional candidate, speaking ahead of a Trump campaign rally in Moon Township.
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PHILADELPHIA Sean Parnell, a decorated combat veteran and favorite of former President Donald Trump, is all but certain to run for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, according to a Republican official who spoke with Parnell this week.
“He said he was 99% sure this is what he was going to do,” said Sam DeMarco, the Republican chairman in Allegheny County, where Parnell came up just short in a high-profile bid for Congress last year. “If he does make that decision, he’s going to be a formidable candidate.”
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Last week, NBC News called the race for that seat “a test of progressive firepower” in a swing state in the wake of Donald Trump.
This past Monday, a fourth Democrat joined the race. On Tuesday, a fourth Republican announced. It’s expected there will be larger candidate fields in primaries more than a year from now.
Campaigns start too early, last too long. But growing attention to this one’s understandable. It’s different. Huge for the state, and maybe the nation.
In November, Parnell lost his bid for the 17th Congressional District seat to Lamb, in a closer-than-expected race. Lamb won 51% to 49% in the district that includes most of Allegheny County, all of Beaver County and a sliver of Butler County.
President Joe Biden beat Trump 51% to 48% in the district, but received nearly 60% of the vote in Allegheny County.
Parnell joined with several other Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Butler County, in a failed attempt to have more than 2.5 million mail-in ballots thrown out and have the Republican-controlled state Legislature select a new slate of Electoral College voters.
Prior to that, Parnell and Luke Negron, another Pittsburgh-area GOP Congressional candidate, filed a federal lawsuit in October over the ballot handling process in Allegheny County.