Democrat with best shot at winning Missouri's 2022 Senate race not running
July 29, 2021 at 14:34 PM EDT
The Democrat considered by many pundits to be his party’s best shot at flipping one of Missouri’s two Republican controlled Senate seats blue says he’s not running. Former two-term Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced on Thursday that “I am not running for U.S. Senate” in the 2022 race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Roy Blunt.