That is a headline I expect to read in about a year. Provided Carper doesn’t croak in the meantime.
Why do I think Mcbride and not Blunt Rochester is going to take out the shambling corpse? Well, I’ll tell you.
But first, someone check my math. Carper’s current term (the 116th Congress) started in January 2019, and runs to January 2025. Carper has said he is running again for another term so he’d be facing a primary opponent in 2024, or about 20 months from now. At that point, Carper will be 77 years old. Granted that’s young for a Democratic Senator, but it is plenty old enough to beg for a strong challenger. (Bill Roth was 78 when Carper announced that he was going to “sadly” retire the great man. Store that “sadly” in you memory banks. It comes back around. That’s foreshadowing.)
If my math checks out, I’ll post “Part 2” of this 30 part series tomorrow. Probably. Maybe.
