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Virginia Sen. Mark Warner told a gathering of supporters in Staunton this past weekend that “this is it” for him. It is his last run for the U.S. Senate seat he first won in 2008 after serving as Virginia’s governor.

Funny, you don’t have to look hard in the archives to find a famous video from his first campaign where he said that he’d only run twice. (I’ll save you the trouble.)

Senator @MarkWarner is running for a 4th termWarner in 1996 VA Senate debate:“I don’t want to be a lifelong politician. If I’m elected to US Senate, I will serve no more than two terms. I think our system is renewed by new ideas and fresh people.”–@MarkWarnerVA https://t.co/ypYDjqZFZl pic.twitter.com/p993HNks5M— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) March 16, 2026

Senator @MarkWarner is running for a 4th termWarner in 1996 VA Senate debate:“I don’t want to be a lifelong politician. If I’m elected to US Senate, I will serve no more than two terms. I think our system is renewed by new ideas and fresh people.”–@MarkWarnerVA https://t.co/ypYDjqZFZl pic.twitter.com/p993HNks5M

Moreover, he said that it was “what you do for part of your life, not all of your life.”

Warner is one of the most active social media “content creators” in D.C. He regularly posts rants about President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin from the passenger seat of his car as he is being driven around. They are meant to look like a thought just struck him, and he had to pick up his smartphone and hit record.

Like many people, especially in politics, who think they know how to “do what Trump does,” meaning making dance-hall comments in social media posts and calling out political........

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