DeMint Exits Senate as Conservative Brand Weakens
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Republican U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, a champion of fiscal conservatives in Congress who has clashed with his party’s leaders, said he will leave in the middle of his term to lead the Heritage Foundation.
At the Republican-leaning policy group in Washington, DeMint will be “much freer to roar” than if he stays in the Senate, Republican political consultant Craig Shirley said yesterday in a telephone interview. Democrats widened their majority in the chamber by two seats in last month’s election.