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Blackburn's entry followed a decision earlier in the day by  term-limited Gov. Bill Haslam  to sit out the race  despite entreaties from Corker  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Tennessee's senior senator  Lamar Alexander.
"While I have loved being a mayor and a governor  I don't feel the same call to run for Senate at this point " said  Haslam .  He  said the hyper-partisanship that surrounds Congress was a factor in  his  decision.
 Haslam 's popularity in the state and  his  vast personal wealth would have made  him  a strong candidate  despite lingering anger among some Republicans over  his  call to Donald Trump to abandon  his  presidential nomination last year following the release of a videotape in which Trump boasted about groping women.
Corker  who announced last week that  he  wouldn't seek a third term  also publicly criticized the Republican president  for  his  response to a deadly white nationalist rally in Virginia. Corker questioned whether Trump had the "competence" or "stability" to succeed in office.
"I believe in President Trump's immigration ban  and I'll fight with  him  every step of the way to build that wall " she said. "I stand when the president walks in room  and yes  I stand when I hear the Star Spangled Banner."
Former U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher is another potential Republican Senate candidate  and is expected to make a decision in the coming days.  Haslam  hasn't said whether  he 'll endorse a Republican in the race.
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Blackburn joins Tennessee Senate race after Haslam begs off


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In an interview with NHK after polls closed   Abe  said  he  would push for an amendment.
“The ruling parties have been granted a majority ”  he  said. “I think it was the people’s voice telling us to make progress in politics and bring results with a stable political base.”
For a leader touting stability  the election had been a gamble.  Abe  had called the vote more than a year early  justifying it by saying that  he  needed a new mandate to deal with the threat posed by North Korea and to work through the details of a consumption-tax increase.
Many analysts said  Abe ’s motive was more opportunistic  however  with the prime minister taking advantage of the disarray of the Democratic Party  Japan’s main opposition party  and a small bump in  his  approval ratings after a number of scandals earlier this year.
The LDP has long dominated postwar Japanese politics. For many Japanese voters   Abe ’s leadership represents stability after years of short-lived governments before  he  returned to the prime minister’s office in 2012.
Some analysts suggest  however  that the weakness of the opposition may mask discontent with  Abe  and a lack of support for many of  his  policies. One exit poll cited by Kyodo showed 51 percent of voters saying they don’t trust  Abe   while 44.1 percent said they do.
Koichi Nakano  a professor of political science at Sophia University  said that the election exposed a lack of widespread support for  Abe ’s policies.  Abe  did not win “because people enthusiastically support  him  ” Nakano said. “People are disaffected and the opposition is divided.”
The bad weather may have also helped  Abe . The approaching Typhoon Lan left voters battling strong winds and heavy rain to make it to polling stations. On Monday  Kyodo estimated the final turnout at 53.69 percent  only marginally above a record low in the 2014 election.
Despite the rain  a number of voters could be found exiting a polling station in Tokyo’s cosmopolitan Roppongi neighborhood Sunday morning. Nobue Koizumi  a 67-year-old retired translator  said she had felt compelled to vote because of fears about  Abe ’s security policies.
“I don’t particularly support  Abe   but I do support” the LDP  said Hiroki Shinohara  a 54-year-old wholesaler at the Tsukiji fish market. “I feel it’s doing what’s right for Japan  and Japan needs it.”
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Japan election: Shinzo Abe's coalition wins supermajority


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America's war in Afghanistan is the longest war the U.S. has ever fought. Beginning a month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11  2001  the initial mission was to remove the Taliban from power and destroy the al-Qaida terror network. Now  nearly 17 years later   Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll  points out that the war's goals have changed.
"The objective is not a grand peace ceremony on some grand aircraft carrier  " Coll  says. "It's to reduce the violence in Afghanistan  to reduce the suffering of innocents in Kabul  to support the constitutional government that we invested in after Sept. 11 so heavily in money and in American lives and sacrifices on the battlefield."
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After 16 Years Afghanistan War Is 'At Best A Grinding Stalemate ' Journalist Says : NPR


