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There are reports that Republican Senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse will resign to become president of the University of Florida. The timing is not clear, but the Governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, can fill a vacancy by appointment. A special election in 2024 looks likely in order to fill out the last two years of Sasse’s term.
Sasse voted to convict and remove Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial in January 2021.
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Sasse, who is two years into his second Senate term, was the search committee’s first choice by unanimous vote. He has five academic degrees and was president of a small Lutheran university in Nebraska before becoming a senator. He is sometimes mentioned as a future candidate for U.S. president and has faced backlash from his party for rebuking former president Donald Trump. He was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection in February 2021.