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Michele Bachmann says she won’t run again

By Maclean's

Representative Michele Bachmann says she won’t run for a seat in 2014.

“Feel confident that over the next 18 months I will continue to work 100-hour weeks and continue to do everything I can to advance our conservative principles that have served as the bedrock for who we are as a nation.”

The Republican from Minnesota — a one-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination — takes time in her video to stress that her decision not to run for a fifth term has nothing to do with concerns about her odds of re-election: