KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) – Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is preparing to face what could be his biggest political test yet.
Toomey announced Sunday at a suburban Philadelphia hotel that he’s running for a second term in the 2016 election, pitching himself as a senator who gets things done in a Congress where it’s hard to get anything done.
He’ll have to win in a presidential election year when more registered Democrats tend to vote. The 53-year-old fiscal conservative from the Allentown area narrowly won his first term in 2010 when a mid-term Republican wave helped the GOP pick up 69 seats in Congress.
Toomey’s so far unopposed for the Republican nomination. At least three Democrats say they’re running for their party’s nomination in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by four to three.