The Rachel Maddow Show   |  February 01, 2013

Scott Brown dumps re-election idea

Rachel Maddow reports the news that former Senator Scott Brown announced via text message that he will not run for the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, leaving no clear answer as to who Republicans will nominate.

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>>> a big development to report in the republican party today as it relates to the united states senate . for whatever reason, former senator scott brown senator scott brown is whatever, not going to run for the united states senate seat that was just vacated by john kerry . whatever. a lot was hinging on this announcement, a hotly anticipated decision from scott brown . but in the end when he decided to make the announcement, he did it by sending a text message . you are the first to know i am not running. the future senator breaking up with all of our hopes and dreams, by way of child-like text messages . nobody knows why he is not running, maybe he will run for governor, and talk to queens and kings and see what he should do. but he is not running for john kerry 's senate seat. they put out a statement saying there are many personal republicans in massachusetts who could run for the seat. she just did not name any of them. so massachusetts republicans seemed very surprised that scott brown is not running and do not seem to have an idea on what to do next. watch this space. [