“Election to the United States Senate has never been something I have ever sought. It’s not me that wants to run,” he explained one day. “But I really feel like God wants me to do this. I’ve prayed about it and have done something that I only do for the most important decisions ever.” One of my siblings asked the question that we were all thinking. “What, Pops?” “I flipped a coin three times,” he said, his eyes growing wider, and a smile of amazement forming on his mouth. “And all three times it landed on heads. So I said, ‘Okay, God, you want me to run, so I will run.’ ”
