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Defend America on Monday, March 01, 2010 11:24:55 PM
Ford decides not to run for N.Y. Senate seat, source says
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Former congressman Harold Ford has decided against challenging
incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a source close to Ford said
Monday, ending a potential primary fight that Democrats in Washington
had discouraged.
Ford had moved to New York after a failed Senate run in 2006 in his
home state of Tennessee, and he had flirted for more than a month with
running against Gillibrand, who was appointed last year to replace
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. His decision could ease the
path to victory this fall for Gillibrand, who was a popular House
member from Upstate New York but was considered vulnerable to a strong
challenger because she is not well known in much of the state.
Ford had spent the last month meeting with activists and potential
supporters in the state, but he had drawn little support from key
political figures in New York or in the Obama administration, which had
said it still backed Gillibrand.
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