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Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday
announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek
re-election in 2018.
The bombshell, which Flake, R-Ariz.,
intended to detail Tuesday afternoon on the Senate floor, will further
roil Republican hopes of keeping the party's 52-seat Senate majority in the
midterm elections of Trump's first term, when the president's party
historically loses seats in Congress.
It also likely will upend the race
for Flake's seat.
Flake, one of the Senate's more
prominent critics of President Donald Trump, has been struggling in the
polls.
He told The ArizonaRepublic ahead of his announcement that he has become
convinced "there may not be a place for a Republican like me in the
current Republican climate or the current Republican Party."
