MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Longtime Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas said Friday that he will not seek re-election in 2020, ending a decades-long career in Congress and setting up an intense political scramble to replace him. Roberts won a U.S. House seat representing western Kansas in 1980 and was elected to the Senate in 1996. Jeff Colyer, outgoing Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Rep. Roger Marshall, who holds the same western Kansas seat Roberts once did. He won his Senate seat in 1996 when popular moderate Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker decided not to seek re-election. Democrats did not field a candidate against him in 2002, and he handily won re-election in 2008.

Source: Huffington Post January 04, 2019 17:37 UTC