DeMint will leave Senate to head Heritage Foundation (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP) South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, an influential Republican who has helped prod his party rightward, will step down from his seat in January to become the next director of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Read the complete story.
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DeMint will leave Senate to head Heritage Foundation

(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, an influential Republican who has helped prod his party rightward, will step down from his seat in January to become the next director of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

Source: firstread.nbcnews.com