{"id":39607,"date":"2025-04-23T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/dick-durbin-wont-seek-re-election-after-nearly-three-decades-in-us-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:44:34","slug":"dick-durbin-wont-seek-re-election-after-nearly-three-decades-in-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/dick-durbin-wont-seek-re-election-after-nearly-three-decades-in-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Durbin won\u2019t seek re-election after nearly three decades in US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois senator, 80, plans to leave office in 2027 at end of term, so voters will elect his replacement in midterms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/23\/donald-trump-elon-musk-tesla-doge-immigration-jerome-powell-law-harvard-us-politics-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrat<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-senate\">US Senate<\/a>, announced he will not seek re-election in 2026, bringing an end to a Senate career that spans nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old Illinois senator, who has served since 1996, posted on social media that he plans to leave office in 2027 when his term expires \u2013 meaning there will be an open primary for his replacement in the midterms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/23\/dick-durbin-us-senate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois senator, 80, plans to leave office in 2027 at end of term, so voters will elect his replacement in midterms US politics live \u2013 latest updates Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the US Senate, announced he will not seek re-election in 2026, bringing an end to a Senate career that spans nearly &#8230; <a title=\"Dick Durbin won\u2019t seek re-election after nearly three decades in US Senate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/dick-durbin-wont-seek-re-election-after-nearly-three-decades-in-us-senate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dick Durbin won\u2019t seek re-election after nearly three decades in US Senate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}