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Senator Mark Warner will not run for governor in 2013

Posted at 4:17 PM, Nov 20, 2012
and last updated 2012-11-20 16:42:26-05

WASHINGTON (WTVR) -  Senator Mark R. Warner has announced that he will not run for governor in 2013.

Despite the senator recently polling with a commanding lead in a race he had not even yet entered, he has chosen not to run for a second term as governor.

Warner said that he was approached by numerous Virginians and asked to consider running for governor, but he said that he has “a different job now–and it’s here in the United States Senate.”

“Believe me, being Governor was the best job I ever had.  I was so proud that we were able to bring folks together, put partisanship aside, and together we moved Virginia forward,” Warner said in a statement released today.