8 republicans are up for reelection in the senate in 2018.
how many republicans are up for reelection in the senate in 2018?
8
in 1855 the national know nothing convention split on the subject of slavery. prominent antislavery know nothing supporters in massachusetts, including henry wilson, began another attempt (after having failed in 1854) to form a party with abolition as a major focus. this effort resulted in the formation of the republican party, which sought to negotiate with the know nothings for a fusion of the two parties. however, massachusetts know nothing leadership refused fusion and republican leadership refused coalition, with many republicans skeptical of gardner's fidelity to the antislavery cause despite his support for fusion. the parties ended up fielding separate slates of candidates, and many know nothing politicians and supporters switched allegiance. in the fall election gardner, running on a strictly nativist platform, garnered 38% of the vote, to the 27% of republican julius rockwell. with the new plurality voting rule in effect, gardner won the election, but the split (and disaffection in some circles with the know nothing agenda) cost him support from former free soilers and democrats. in the 1856 election gardner benefited from a deal with the republicans, who refused to run a candidate for governor in exchange for know nothing support for their presidential candidate, john c. frémont. he easily won reelection, although many republicans voted for a protest candidate instead of supporting him. he attempted to parlay the republican support into an election to the united states senate (a matter then decided by the state senate early in its session) replacing charles sumner. however, republican operatives maneuvered the senate into voting before gardner's speech opening the 1857 session, and sumner was easily reelected.
henry gardner
the senate was expected to debate the bill during the afternoon of september 23, 2013. the senate democrats were expected to try to remove the language from the bill that defunds the affordable care act, while senate republicans were expected to oppose such a move. senator mike lee said on meet the press that senate republicans push to the verge of a government shutdown, but that "the government will be funded." the house cancelled a planned week of recess with the expectation that they would receive a revised version of the bill back from the senate during that time. the senate worked on the bill from september 23 to september 27. on september 27, the senate voted in roll call vote 209 54-44 to amend the bill to remove the language that defunded the affordable care act. that vote was made after a vote to move forward with working on the bill, one which many republicans voted in favor of. this maneuver allowed the senate to vote on the bill, even with the affordable care act provisions removed, in order to send the bill back to the house. the senate republican leadership made this decision to avoid senate republicans from being blamed for the, then potential, government shutdown by leaving the next move up to the house. republicans were split on the move, however, with 25 republicans voting in favor of ending debate (thus allowed a vote on the bill) and 19 voting against it (which would prevent the democrats from easily rewriting the bill to remove the affordable care act provisions). the republicans opposed to this were primarily led by senator ted cruz. all republicans did vote against the final passage of the law, once the affordable care act provisions had been stripped out, a sign, according to senate minority leader mcconnell, that republicans were unified in their opposition to the affordable care act itself.
continuing appropriations resolution, 2014