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In various responses, I have mentioned that WY Sen. John Barrasso is not running in 2020 and thus is retiring from the Senate. I want to clarify that it's WY's other senator, Mike Enzi who's retiring, and NOT Barrasso. It doesn't change the math, but I do want to be accurate.
Thus, it is Enzi who's among the three current GOP senators who are retiring after this Congress, joining KS Sen. Pat Roberts and TN Sen. Lamar Alexander, who are also stepping down by not running in 2020.
A fourth GOP senator, GA Sen. Johnny Isakson, is stepping down at the end of the year for health reasons and will be replaced by GA Gov. Brian Kemp and will join the other GA Sen., David Perdue, in a double-header Senate election in GA in 2020.
Of note, that will mean that Georgia will be the third state in the last two election cycles to have double-header senate elections, as both Minnesota and Mississippi had double-header Senate elections during the 2018 midterm election (both were single party sweeps).
Also, while 16 current GOP members of the House are not running in 2020 (along with 4 Democrats), two of them, MT Rep. Greg Gianforte (the only GOP lawmaker tied to Rosneft/Gazprom) and AL Rep. Bradley Byrne, are running for higher office.
Gianforte is running for the governorship in Montana, which has slowly been becoming a "purple state", at least in gubernatorial and congressional elections, and Byrne is among those running for the Senate seat currently occupied by Doug Jones.
