Rob Portman to not seek re-election

Sen. Rob Portman said he would not be seeking re-election to a third term in 2022. Portman cited political partisanship as a factor in his decision. He said that the US is increasingly becoming a ’polarized’ country where ’members of both parties are being pushed further to the right and further to the left.’ This has resulted in too few people ’actively looking to find common ground,’ he said.