Ben Sasse Explains His Decision to Leave Senate to Serve as University of Florida President

Nebraska GOP senator Ben Sasse is set to retire from the Senate before the end of the year in order to serve as president of the University of Florida.

The deal isn’t finalized, but Sasse told National Review in a brief phone interview on Thursday afternoon: “On Sunday night, [the university’s] board chair flew up and walked me through how they had had a search committee meeting that ended last week and that there was a 15–0 vote on the search committee to deputize him to pursue just me” to serve as president.

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Nebraska GOP senator Ben Sasse is set to retire from the Senate before the end of the year in order to serve as president of the University of Florida.

The deal isn’t finalized, but Sasse told National Review in a brief phone interview on Thursday afternoon: “On Sunday night, [the university’s] board chair flew up and walked me through how they had had a search committee meeting that ended last week and that there was a 15–0 vote on the search committee to deputize him to pursue just me” to serve as president.