‘Pretending to be senator’: Coleman is still attending GOP caucus meetings

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When Al Franken started putting “Sen.-elect,” before his name, former Sen. Norm Coleman’s spokesman Mark Drake responded by calling it a “joke,” and staffer Luke Friedrich followed it up by claiming Franken was merely “pretending to be a Senator before we know who really won.” I’m curious, then, what the pair have to say about the fact that Coleman — no longer a senator — is still attending Senate Republican Conference meetings, including a party lunch meeting today. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) told TPM that Coleman, whose term expired seven weeks ago, is “always welcome,” and that “we still think he has a very good opportunity” to win.