BREAKING: Harold Ford Says No To New York Senate Run

The New York Times just reported that Harold Ford will not run for the Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s senate seat.

“I’ve examined this race in every possible way, and I keep returning to the same fundamental conclusion: If I run, the likely result would be a brutal and highly negative Democratic primary — a primary where the winner emerges weak-ened and the Republican strengthened,” Mr. Ford wrote in an opinion article to be published in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

I refuse to do anything that would help
Republicans win a Senate seat in New
York, and give the Senate majority to the
Republicans.”

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