The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team gathers to discuss the news that Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona will not seek re-election, as well as talk about what his departure means for the GOP Senate primary in 2018, for the general election and for the Republican Party as a whole.

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