WASHINGTON — Delaware Democratic Sen. Thomas R. Carper announced Monday he won’t seek a fifth term, creating a rare vacancy in the Blue Hen State.
Carper said he’d been discussing whether to seek another term with his wife since the end of last year.
“After a good deal of prayer and introspection and more than a few heart-to-heart conversations, we decided … I should run through the tape over the next 20 months and finish the important work that my staff and I have begun on a wide range of fronts,” Carper, the last Vietnam veteran serving in the Senate, said during a press conference flanked by his wife in Wilmington, Delaware.
