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By Ari Feldman February 6, 2018

Michele Bachmann declared she is not running to replace Al Franken’s Senate seat, less than a month after telling a televangelist that she was looking into it, the Washington Post reported.

Bachmann told a conservative radio host in Minnesota that she “wasn’t hearing any call from God to do this.”

“I took it to the Lord in a very quiet way,” she said. “I prayed, I tried to have my ears open and hear what God was saying to me.”

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Bachmann was one of the final six Republican’s vying for the presidential nomination in 2012. She is also in demand as a speaker on conservative and evangelical radio shows and in churches. She was part of the Donald Trump campaign’s evangelical advisory council.

Bachmann initially told televangelist Jim Bakker she was considering a run in January. Bakker’s show reaches millions of viewers every day.

Religious Republican candidates frequently invoke hearing a call from God that they should run for office.

Contact Ari Feldman at [email protected] or on Twitter @aefeldman

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