BETHLEHEM – Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) will not be running for Governor or re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2022.
Senator Toomey confirmed this during a news conference Monday morning, “I’ve been getting phone calls almost on a daily basis from people who have said, ‘I want to help you run for governor,’ or ‘I want to help with your re-election campaign,’ and once I reached the decision, I wanted to be candid with that.”
Toomey said he is going to ‘join the private sector.’ There’s also some speculation about a White House run in four years.
He talks about how he arrived at the decision to leave office, “Representing the people of Pennsylvania has been an extraordinary, amazing honor…still is…and its been by far the highlight of my professional life. The reasons that I reached this decision or not political. They’re personal.”
But in these final two years of his current term, the Senator says there’s still plenty left to accomplish, “It is my hope that I’ll be chairman of the Senate Banking Committee because I am hopeful and cautiously optimistic that my Republican colleagues will prevail in a number of tough races and we will be in the majority, and I hope to be serving these last two years with President Donald Trump having been re-elected.”
At the conclusion of his term in 2022, Toomey says he will have served in government 18 years in a 24-year period.
