President Donald Trump asked him to run for a third term.
Blunt faced heat from other Republicans, namely former Gov. Eric Greitens, for voting to sustain President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Blunt voted to acquit Trump during his second impeachment trial earlier this year.
When he was chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Blunt was the point person for Trump’s 2017 inauguration as was the case this year when Biden was sworn into office. So Blunt said he spent a lot of time with Trump before he was inaugurated, which he added created a unique relationship between them.
St. Louis Public Radio U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, seen at a February 2020 news conference, shook up Missouri s political landscape by announcing this week he s not running for a third term.
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt talked about his reelection plans with former President Donald Trump before he decided against running for a third term.
But the state s 71-year-old senior senator said in an interview Friday he is more than content with his decision that will bring to a close a landmark career that started in the Greene County clerk’s office and took him to GOP leadership in the House and Senate.