Dick Durbin gives tearful goodbye as Democrats’ power play begins for minority whip

With the upcoming departure of the senator Dick Durbin, DEL, in 2026, a battle will start soon for its desired role as a minority in the Senate, the second highest leadership role in the assembly next to the minority leader in the Senate Charles Schumer.

“There is a point in your career when the flame must be passed, and this point has reached,” Durbin said at a press conference in Springfield on Thursday. “I will not seek to re -elect the Senate seat in the United States.”

Several names have already been offered to the Whip function, including some vocal Senators and others usually the calm policy slices appear attractive.

One male candidate is Senator Hawaii Brian Shatz.

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Shatz, 52, in his third term, the current deputy lame of Deren as well as the deputy minister of the conference, a job that includes communication and strategy for Democrats in the Senate.

He is also the largest democratic for the Indian Affairs Committee of the Senate, given the indigenous population in the state of Elha.

Shatz was active behind the scenes for the liberals, as he puts hundreds of candidates for Trump to fill the functions of the Foreign Ministry in response to the President’s efforts to close the United States Agency for International Development.

He is a former member of the Hawaiian Green Party, and is also considered a bridge between the progressive and liberals.

A former senior assistant in the former Senate Harry Reed, De Neve, Edward Kennedy, de-Mass told Hill that it is difficult to know how the leadership elections will go because it will be affected by the voices of the doors, but “as much as I can say, it seems that the Senator Chatez is in a very good position if he wants to take trips.”

Durbin, No. 2 in the Democratic Senate, will not seek to re -election

Senator Patti Murray, D-WASH. , Sitting in a hearing. (Getty Images)

It is rumored that the Senator Shieldon Whitch, the doctor, is to be a possible successor for Dorbin as Chairman of the Judicial Committee of the Senate, according to the policy of the Politio.

Whitehouse has raised his personal file as one of the most prominent critics of President Donald Trump, regularly created viral clips of fighting with management candidates in the various hearings he sat in.

Another deputy male is Senator Patti Murray, who was third in the presidency until the Republican Party regained the Senate.

Senator Charles Grasli, R Ayawa, is now carrying this role, which is usually occupied by Senate member of the majority party.

Murray is also the largest Democrats in the Senate Accreditation Committee.

Often it is called “my mother in tennis shoes” that ran to the Senate in 1992, a relative new political window, Murray once said that she and others “entered the US Senate because we were crazy.”

I pressed Olympia officials to save an educational program from budget discounts when she was told “you cannot make a change,” according to a biography of the Washington Secretary of State Office.

This popular history, along with a long period of Murray and its proximity with driving, can also make it a lock of Dorbine.

Fox News Digital communicated with Schatz, Whitehouse and Murray for comment but it did not hear immediately.

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Durbin spoke of tears about his retirement decision during a press conference outside the Springfield home himself, as he announced his first Senate race in nearly 30 years.

He heard again to his risky movement to give up a “safe house seat”.

Durbin said: “Therefore, over the past 29 years, it has been justified that this decision has resulted,” Durbin said.

“I love this job. I think it’s a great job, but I also know reality.”