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election would be a logical extension and that’s what a senator would be expected to do.”
A poll conducted by a Richmond newspaper three weeks before Mr. Robb announced for the Senate race showed him ahead with the voters.
It put him far ahead of a list of possible Republican challengers, including J. Marshall Coleman, whom Mr. Robb defeated for governor in 1981, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., former Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. and U.S. Reps. Parris, Frank R. Wolf, Thomas Bliley Jr. and Herbert Bateman.
Despite the poll's results and a consensus among Democratic party officials that Mr. Robb will be a virtual shoo-in, Mr. Robb said that “I don’t assume anything and I believe the campaign will be a tough, hardfought contest.”
John Miller, press spokesman for Republican Sen. Paul S. Trible, vacating the seat sought by Mr. Robb, said state Republicans will “field an eminently qualified candidate.” And
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