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Washington Post: Alabama Senate hopeful Lynda Blanchard showered money on Trump, lost endorsement
Updated Apr 09, 3:00 PM;
Posted Apr 09, 2:42 PM
Lynda Blanchard announced her candidacy for Alabama Senate race in 2022 on Feb. 18, 2021. (Screenshot from campaign video announcement)
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The Washington Post featured Republican Alabama Senate candidate Lynda Blanchard in a detailed report today on Republicans’ expensive pilgrimages to former president Donald Trump’s Florida properties. But Blanchard was an example of how it doesn’t always pay full returns to rent a ballroom and throw an expensive campaign event there. Trump showed up and posed for a photograph, but he endorsed another candidate.
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Republican Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby will retire at the end of his current Senate term, the fourth sitting Republican senator to announce that he will not seek reelection in 2022. For everything, there is a season,” Shelby said in a statement on Monday. “I am grateful to the people of Alabama who have put their trust in me for more than forty years. I have been fortunate to serve in the U.S. Senate longer than any other Alabamian.
Shelby, 86, was elected to the House in 1978 and the Senate in 1986. He switched parties from Democratic to Republican in 1994 and is the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee.