our hopes and prayers march with him.
What a way to lose the senate if he were (god forbid) to die, or step down...
Theres nothing to stop him staying on for years, even if he is incapacitated somewhat
From Slate: "In 1969, two years into his fourth term, South Dakota Sen. Karl E. Mundt, a Republican, suffered a stroke and was unable to continue voting. He offered to resign, but only on the condition that South Dakota's governor appoint Mundt's wife to fill the vacancy. The governor refused, and Mundt retained the Senate seat, even while missing three full years of votes. He even remained on three committees until 1972, when the Senate Republican Conference stripped him of these assignments. Similarly, in the 1940s, Sen. Carter Glass of Virginia missed two years' worth of votes due to illness—he was 87 and in failing health—but refused to retire even as newspapers from across his state pressured him to step aside."
Some of the stuff on the right-wing forums is horrible 'This is God's way of letting America know he wants us to have a Republican Senate'
