With Pirro's abrupt departure, Edward Cox is reconsidering jumping back into the Senate race:
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N.Y. Republican: Cox may make Senate bid
By MARC HUMBERT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Edward Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon, is reconsidering his decision two months ago to withdraw from the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the state's GOP chairman said Friday.
"I spoke with him yesterday and he said he was reviewing whether or not to run," said Stephen Minarik.
Minarik said he had reached out at the behest of several county GOP chairmen in the wake of Jeanine Pirro's Wednesday announcement that she was giving up her struggling campaign for the Senate nomination to run instead for state attorney general.
The Westchester County district attorney was the best-known of Clinton's potential GOP challengers, but had been under pressure from GOP leaders to switch races. Cox had withdrawn from the race in October after Republican Gov. George Pataki endorsed Pirro.
Minarik, Pataki's hand-picked state party chairman, said he did not expect any decision from Cox until January.
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