President Trump Critic U.S. Senator Jeff Flake Has Announced That He Will Not Seek Re-Election

U.S. Senator Jeff Flake

AZCentral: Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate

Condemning the nastiness of Republican politics in the era of President Donald Trump, Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek re-election in 2018.

The bombshell, which Flake, R-Ariz., intended to detail Tuesday afternoon on the Senate floor, will further roil Republican hopes of keeping the party's 52-seat Senate majority in the midterm elections of Trump's first term, when the president's party historically loses seats in Congress.

It also likely will upend the race for Flake's seat.

Flake, one of the Senate's more prominent critics of President Donald Trump, has been struggling in the polls.

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WNU Editor: US Senator Flake is having a lot of trouble raising money, and he is trailing over 20% in the polls against his main Republican primary challenger. His time was up, and this is just more evidence on how much the Republican Party has changed (and is changing) since last year's election.