The announcement means that Pennsylvania Republicans will not have their most high-profile politician on any statewide ballot during the 2022 midterms in the critical swing state.
Toomey had previously expressed interest in running for governor and was considered the odds-on favorite to be the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2022 if he chose to run for the office.
Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, will not be allowed to run for reelection in 2022 due to the state's gubernatorial term limits. Therefore there will be two open-seat statewide elections in Pennsylvania during the midterms -- one for the governor's office and one for Toomey's seat. Toomey said he has no specific plans for what to do once he leaves the Senate. He also complimented Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, his counterpart from Pennsylvania, saying they've "outpaced ... almost every other divided delegation in the Senate in the category of filling vacancies on the federal bench and we've done so with just some wonderful, talented people across Pennsylvania."
Toomey also said he hopes to be the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee if Republicans keep the Senate and that he hopes Trump wins reelection. Toomey said Trump's coronavirus diagnosis and his debate performance did not play a role in his decision to leave the Senate in 2022. He said the reasoning behind the decision was that so many people were offering to help him run for reelection or governor, but he wanted to be "candid" with those people.
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