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as posted by the channelNebraska GOP Senator Ben Sasse was met with student protests at the University of Florida, where he could become the president, replacing Kent Fuchs.
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Nebraska GOP Senator Ben Sasse is expected to resign from the Senate to become president at the University of Florida. "I think Florida is the most interesting university in America right now," Sasse said in a statement after the school announced that a search committee recommended him for the job of school president.
Sasse, 50, in his second term in the Senate, has often lamented Donald Trump's influence on the Republican Party and frequently clashed with the 45th president. He was one of seven Republican senators last year to vote to convict the former president on impeachment charges that he helped inflame a mob to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The timing of Sasse's departure could be significant. The Nebraska governor would appoint a replacement. Current governor Pete Ricketts is a Republican, but his office is up for grabs in the November election. The University of Florida Board of Trustees has to approve the recommendation of Sasse as president and is scheduled to consider the appointment at a meeting on Nov. 1. Before his election to the U.S. Senate in 2014, Sasse served as president of Midland University, a small Lutheran school in Nebraska.
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