Which year?
The Clown Prince of the US Senate has a date certain to depart? The Governor of Minnesota, and the entire Minnesota Democrat delegation to the US Congress must have brought some really bruising pressure.
Tina Smith has all the requisite qualifications called for as the replacement of Al Gropen, er, Franken as Senator - she is believed to have a vagina. As far as her personal belief system goes, she is a more rabid and doctrinaire ideologue than even Dianne Feinstein or Kamala Harris, and probably greatly surpasses even Amy Klobuchar, who after all, had to actually be elected.
This should put everyone in good standing with the Somalian constituents in Minnesota.
And Garrison Keillor. Lake Woebegone shall be well represented.