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Lott to run again for Senate

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U.S. Sen. Trent Lott said Tuesday that he will run for a fourth term.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (CNN) -- Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott announced Tuesday that he will seek a fourth term to the U.S. Senate.

"I have chosen Mississippi and America once again," Lott said. "I am going to ask the people to re-elect me to another term in the United States Senate."

The Mississippi Republican, 64, was pushed out of the GOP leadership after he told a 2002 birthday gathering for former Sen. Strom Thurmond that the country would have avoided "all these problems" if Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid had succeeded.

Lott later apologized for his "poor choice of words."

Before his tenure in the Senate, Lott served for 16 years in the House of Representatives.

Last year, he lost his Pascagoula home in Hurricane Katrina.

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