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...“I’m campaigning in Virginia for Virginians, not around the country.”...
...Trent Lott, the former Republican Senate majority leader now at law firm Squire Patton Boggs, says: “I am a believer that if you get the corporate rate where it should be and cut individual rates and make...
...Trent Lott, former Republican Senate leader who is now at the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, has warned that a major shift in attitudes is needed among politicians....
...“You are never going to have the votes until you have the vote, until they see the whites of the eyes of the enemy,” Lott tells me....
...“I even beat him in Virginia, where he spent so much time and money. Now his bosses are desperate and angry!”...
...The majority of the House is always fractious, whether it’s Democrat or Republican,” said Mr Lott....
...Then Eric Cantor, the majority leader in the House of Representatives, was ejected by grassroots conservatives in Virginia who picked an academic almost unknown outside his district....
...In Mississippi, Roger Wicker, the Republican, defeated Ronnie Musgrove, the former Democratic governor, to take the seat vacated by Trent Lott, the former Senate majority leader....
...The most certain victories lie in Virginia, Colorado, and New Mexico....
...At this early stage, Democrats are nearly certain to win at least two seats left vacant by retiring Republican senators in Virginia and New Mexico, and have a good chance of a third open seat in Colorado...
...“There are a lot of people on the Republican side who are not happy with the situation,” said Trent Lott, a normally hardline Republican Senate leader....
...While Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, and John Warner, a Virginia Republican, lend their elder-statesman status to the compromise talks, most senators are falling in line with party allegiance....
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