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FILE - Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., speaks to supporters, May 14, 2004, in Bellevue, Wash., after he officially announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Nethercutt, who was a Spokane lawyer with little political experience when he ousted Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley as part of a stunning GOP wave that shifted national politics to the right in 1994, died Friday, June 14, 2024, near Denver. He was 79. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan steps off of his campaign bus for a stop at DePaola's Bagel and Brunch in Stevensville, Md., Friday, April 12, 2024, as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

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Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, center, talks with patrons of DePaola's Bagel and Brunch in Stevensville, Md., Friday, April 12, 2024, as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Former Maryland Governor and current U.S. Senate hopeful Larry Hogan has organized a statewide grassroots "Back to Work" bus tour which begins Friday, set to urge the public to fix "broken politics" and literally "get back to work." (Image courtesy of Hogan for Maryland, Inc.)

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar shows her tattoo to supporters during her election night party in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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A Transportation Security Administration officer works at Dallas Love Field Airport on June 24, 2020, in Dallas. U.S. Senate and House members proposed Wednesday, March 29, 2023, to create a new no-fly list for unruly passengers, an idea that was pushed by airline unions but failed to gain traction last year. The legislation would let the Transportation Security Administration ban people convicted or fined for assaulting or interfering with airline crew members. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

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In this Dec. 11, 2020 file photo, a sign in an Atlanta neighborhood urges people to vote early in Georgia's two U.S. Senate races. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

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Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign stop in Cumming, Ga., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, meets with voters at a “Breakfast with Blake” campaign stop at Nickle’s Diner in Rio Rico, Arizona, on Oct. 9, 2022. (Photo by Seth McLaughlin)

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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the state's U.S. Senate seat, speaks during a rally in Erie, Pa., Aug. 12, 2022. Fetterman has made abortion rights a prominent theme in the suburbs to invigorate female voters after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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New Mehmet Oz campaign billboard features the phrase "soft on skin, soft on bottoms, soft on crime" opposite Pennsylvania Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate John Fetterman. Photo by Seth McLaughlin.

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In this Dec. 11, 2020 file photo, a sign in an Atlanta neighborhood urges people to vote early in Georgia's two U.S. Senate races. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

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In this Dec. 11, 2020 file photo, a sign in an Atlanta neighborhood urges people to vote early in Georgia's two U.S. Senate races. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

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Lucas Kunce, 39, a Democrat and U.S. Marine veteran, is running for a U.S. Senate seat to represent Missouri. He has far out-fundraised a crowded field of Democrats and most Republicans in a race for a vacant Senate seat that could be pivotal in deciding which party controls the chamber after 2022. (Image courtesy of the Kunce campaign)

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Two months removed from her run-off loss, former Sen. Kelly Loeffler is building the voter-registration group Greater Georgia to rival liberal activist Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight that helped Democrats flip two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia. (Associated Press file photo)

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Outgoing U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., talks to reporters at an election night party for Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate David Perdue, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Democrat Jaime Harrison is neck and neck with incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham for his U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina. Democratic allies are boosting Constitution Party's Bill Bledsoe to steer Republican support. (Associated Press)

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The U.S. Senate returned Monday after a more than five-week hiatus because of the coronavirus crisis. Partisan squabbling began right from the start. (Associated Press)

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Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn speaks during the 2018 Tennessee U.S. Senate Debate at The University of Tennessee Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, Pool)

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Rep. Denny Rehberg, Montana Republican, often wears cowboy boots while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, and tells stories about his ranching background. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester derisively sees him as all hat and no cattle. (Associated Press)