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Corker weighs his options as GOP frets about losing Tennessee
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/12/tennessee-corker-republicans-senate-405971

Retiring Sen. Bob Corker is “listening” to Republicans urging him to run for reelection, according to a person close to him,
a development that would quell anxiety among Republicans over losing a must-win seat to Democrats this fall.

消息筋によれば、引退を表明したボブ・コーカー連邦上院議員に対し、共和党員の間から
シートを失う不安から再選出馬待望論が沸き起こっている

The two-term Tennessee GOP senator decided to call it quits in September amid an on-again,
off-again dispute with President Donald Trump that has eroded his standing with the party’s base.
But now a faction of Republicans in Tennessee and Washington are worried that the favorite for the Republican Senate nomination, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), could lose the general election
? and with it the Senate majority.

本命候補のマーシャ・ブラックバーン連邦下院議員が民主党に敗れ、共和党が上院多数を失う結果になるのではないかという不安が地元やワシントンの共和党の間で広がっている