MT-SEN: Baucus resigns

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

So you're saying the reason Democrats would lose this seat is because of Schweitzer?

Not because this guy is a very popular congressman, but because Schweitzer screwed everything up and encouraged a challenger to run?

That was the consensus among some even before these news. We were relying on Schweitzer to run in the first place after Baucus's retirement only to decline over allegations. And over time in this campaign, Walsh can turn Daines into the exact opposite, but with Bohlinger as a nuisance and threat now, he'll have to take time and money out of his own campaign and can't settle on just Daines until he beats out Bohlinger.

He declined because he honestly didn't want to be a Senator. He'd been saying it for years. He wants to be President, and he's running in 2016 regardless of what Hillary does.