Posted on 03/25/2024 10:05:14 AM PDT by silent majority rising
Republican Representative Mike Gallagher, who represents the 8th Congressional district of Wisconsin, announced earlier this year that he would be retiring from the House of Representatives after serving his current term in Office.
On February 10th, 2024, Gallagher made the public announcement that he would not seek re-election to his position in 2024, further diminishing the slim majority Republicans currently hold in the House of Representatives.
Gallagher joins the ranks of 14 other House Republicans who have also announced that they will not seek re-election heading into 2024. That list includes,
Debbie Lesko (AZ-8) Kay Granger (TX-12) Brad Wenstrup (OH-2) Michael Burgess (TX-26) Patrick McHenry (NC-10) Drew Ferguson (GA-3) Doug Lamborn (CO-5) Larry Bucshon (IN-8) Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) Greg Pence (IN-6) Jeff Duncan (SC-3) Matt Rosendale (MT-2) Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-5) Yesterday Rep. Gallagher announced that he will be retiring from his position in the House earlier than expected, stating that he would officially resign his seat on April 19th, 2024. This places Gallagher on a list of several other Republican officials who have resigned from their positions in the House since the Republican takeover of the chamber in 2022.
That list of members includes,
Ken Buck (CO-4) Bill Johnson (OH-6) Kevin McCarthy (CA-20) In addition to these members, George Santos, who represented New York’s 3rd Congressional district was expelled from Congress on December 1st, 2023. In total, the Republican Party has lost four members to retirement already.
The Republican Party currently holds just 218 seats in the House, while the Democrats currently hold 213. Colorado Representative Ken Buck officially vacated his seat on Friday, March 22nd, pulling the Republican majority down an additional seat.
Once Mike Gallagher departs on April 19th, the House Republican majority will have shrunk to just 217, the bare minimum needed to advance legislation in the body. As it stands, the Republican Party is just one retirement away from losing their majority in the House, and once again handing unilateral control of Washington D.C. to the Democratic Party and Joe Biden.
Revealing an apparent sinister nature to Gallagher’s retirement, and the timing of the decision, Wisconsin law would afford a special election for Republicans to elect his replacement if Gallagher had just retired days earlier. If Gallagher had chosen to leave office anytime before the second Tuesday in April, a special election to choose his replacement would have occurred.
Since Gallagher has decided to retire on the 19th, the second Friday of April, his seat will remain vacated until it is eventually filled by the winner of the 8th district of Wisconsin in the 2024 Election.
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has called out Gallagher for his decision to leave office after the deadline for a special election and has even called for Gallagher to be expelled from Congress before the looming deadline.
To understand the impact that Republicans losing their majority in the House of Representatives would have on the 2024 Election, we mustn’t look further than the recent Supreme Court decision regarding former President Donald Trump’s ballot access in the upcoming election.
The Supreme Court definitively stated in that ruling that Congress, not the individual States, had the right to bar an individual from access to the Presidential ballot. If Republicans can maintain their majority in the House, the prospect of Trump being removed from the Presidential ballot is practically impossible.
Should the Democrats regain control of the House before the 2024 Election, the prospect of President Trump being removed from the Presidential ballot becomes an almost certain possibility.
The Democrats already maintain a slight majority in the Senate, enough to pass whatever they like should Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats regain control of the House.
Once again, it appears that the largest threat facing former President Donald Trump is not from the Democratic Party, but from those within his own Party. When examining those who have decided to retire from Congress, and not seek re-election in 2024, we find many commonalities.
One commonality, present for nearly every departing member of the chamber, is one GOP megadonor who has worked to undermine President Donald Trump since he first launched his campaign for President back in 2015.
Paul Singer, billionaire hedge fund manager and co-CEO of Elliott Management, a firm responsible for over $50 Billion in assets. Singer is worth a reported $6 Billion. In 2016, the establishment Republican billionaire dumped $2.5 Million into Marco Rubio’s failed Presidential campaign through a PAC called ‘Our Principles.’ See evidence of those donations below,
FEC Singer’s attempts to derail Trump did not stop after Trump’s victory in the 2016 Election. Singer is also attributed with the initial creation of the highly questionable research included in the Steele Dossier through the Washington Free Beacon and Fusion GPS.
In the 2024 Presidential Election, Singer chose to donate to Nikki Haley’s campaign through the SFA Fund PAC. The billionaire gave Haley an astounding $5,000,000 donation on December 18th, 2023. See evidence of that donation below,
FEC Haley of course dropped out of the Presidential race on March 6th, 2024, less than 3 months after receiving Singer’s astounding $5,000,000 donation.
Now that Singer’s most recent efforts to bring down Trump have failed, some have speculated that he may be fueling efforts in the House to hand control to Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats.
6 of the 14 Republicans who have announced that they will not seek re-election in 2024 have taken past donation from Paul Singer. Those Representatives are Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Patrick McHenry, Drew Ferguson, Kay Granger, Blaine Luetkemeyer, and Greg Pence. See evidence of Singer’s donations to these Republicans below,
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FEC Is Paul Singer influencing Republicans to retire from the House of Representatives in yet another attempt to derail former President Donald Trump?
By all measures, the push to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot has already begun, as top ranking House Democrat Jamie Raskin has already introduced legislation that would in fact bar Trump from the ballot in the upcoming Presidential election. All the Democrats need now is a simple majority in the House.
Further investigation of the four Republican Representatives that have retired from the House prior to the 2024 Election show us the Singer has donated to Mike Gallagher, Kevin McCarthy, and Ken Buck. There is only one Republican that has retired, or is retiring prior to the 2024 Election that hasn’t taken money from Singer. See evidence of Singer’s donation to Gallagher, McCarthy, and Buck below,
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?committee_id=C00420935&committee_id=C00461368&committee_id=C00610212&contributor_name=paul+singer&contributor_state=MA&contributor_state=NY It’s no secret that Paul Singer has been working to undermine Donald Trump since he first came down the Trump Tower escalator on June 16th, 2015. Could he be spearheading the mass retirement of GOP officials heading into 2024, ceding control of the House to the Democratic Party, and setting up Trump to be removed from the Presidential ballot prior to the election?
It surely seems like no coincidence that a majority of the members of Congress that are retiring, or have announced that they are not seeking re-election, have taken donations from Singer. Either way, the GOP establishment donor class obviously appears to be up to something.
They’re planning on it. That’s how they take over.
Gallegar has been compromised by the 3 letter agencies, the deep state plays for keeps and these stinking legislators are just TO STUPID for their own damn good!! Epstein was a CIA asset BANK ON IT!! 3 letter agencies send out YOUNG girl or boy legislator have to much to drink OR to much cocaine AND the party begins with the 3 letter agencies filming the entire damn thing!! You can bet Gallegar was ordered to wait until it was too late for a special election!! Our side runs on such a moral high ground such as ousting Santos YET you can bet EVERY stinking one of them have some VERY DARK garbage in their own damn closets!!! SPIT
Maybe it’s better than plan A, which has been WWIII. Sadly it looks like both.
We outlined our historical lifespan for a Republic. We had a good run. I should have bought a little farm when I was able.
The point is they will be able to take over the House before the election, then they would do whatever is necessary to prevent Trump from being sworn in.
Lot of evil people holding republican seats and like everyone who was forced to take the vaccine in order to keep feeding their family, congress critters want to feed theirs as well. Well some do anyway, not all I imagine.
This could not get 60 votes in the Senate.
Since when has the Constitution or the laws of the land
prevented the Marxist Democrats from trying anything
to grasp and maintain power? These evil Democrats
have corrupted the Media, the Courts, the legal profession
and nearly all the government agencies.
They have wormed their way into the military and lets face the facts,
they control the levers of power in America at this time.
They don't care about ex post facto laws or bills of attainder.
I believe they will try anything, even murder,
to maintain their grip on the lives and
destiny of the American republic and its people.
I have gotten some really nasty flames pointing out there is NO WAY the swamp allows Trump to win. In fact, I am surprised they haven’t outright murdered him. What would stop Biden’s stasi goons at the FBI? I will go so far to say the raid at his home in Mar A Lago was an attempt to murder him saying he came out “guns a blazin’” and they were forced to shoot him. Prepare accordingly. The country, as founded, is over. Done. It will not recover. Especially with more than 10% living here illegally and a massive army of welfare slugs living off other people.
Democrat Marxists helped once again, to achieve their goal of destroying the USA.
The 14th Amendment was clear for the times. The insurrection was the Civil War. And the insurrectionists were those folks who took an oath to the United States, then joined the Confederacy.
But it’s too darn vague for today. Who decides what is an insurrection? And who decides who actually participated? The 14A doesn’t say.
I don’t think it’s a criminal trial sort of thing. No one needs to be arrested and convicted in a court first. You just have to be declared an “insurrectionist”.
I can absolutely see Congress claiming to have the power to make that decision. Then the whole thing would get kicked to the Supreme Court. Bottom line: I think this ploy is a real threat to Trump.
“Kamala will refuse to certify the electors of Trump.”
Congress certifies Electoral Ballots, not Kamala.
Of course if Dems are in control of the House and Senate, then they won’t certify Trump ballots. With neither Biden nor Trump having a majority of Electoral Ballots, the House will elect the President, each state delegation casting one vote. If Dems control more state delegations than Republicans, the next Pres will be Biden again.
Cartels must have spent billions to get all these rinos to resign or not run again.
“XCLUSIVE: The RINO Plan To Ban Trump From The 2024 Ballot Is Underway”
The Deep State Plan To Ban Trump From The 2024 Ballot Is Underway
There, fixed it
Good thing the President of the Senate, or the whole Congress for that matter, doesn't certify anything.
Hey, just take a few guys and destroy that ammo stored north of Concord....
China is calling in their markers.
Why did Gallagher make this announcement now? Why not just retire on 4/19, effective immediately?
The Democrats do not care in the slightest manner about what is legal.
The law is whatever the Democrats say it is. And the Democrats refuse to be restrained by the US Constitution. They also ignore the Courts when it suits them. "We, the people" seem to tolerate this.
These conflicts will most likely be settled by force, not by legal arguments. We are headed for a civil war. Control of the police and military forces will be the decisive factor in who prevails. Criminal cartels may have quite a bit of influence on who keeps control of the police and military forces as they can outbid potential recruits for both of them.
“They also ignore the Courts when it suits them. “We, the people” seem to tolerate this.”
Who is on a ballot can be understood by the voter. They can’t ignore a Supreme Court ruling on that.
Anyway, if that is the way they want to roll, various states can just start removing whoever the democrat candidate is.
They control activities bringing in hundreds of billions. Renting politicians is just another business expense for them.
Besides, the politicians are not all as stupid as they appear to be. The smarter Republicans know that it is all about to blow up and the Democrats won't keep them around anymore to split the graft. They are cashing out and getting out while the getting is still good.
The "Our Democracy(tm)" show is in its' final season. I believe the working title of the replacement show might be "The Thousand Year Reich of the Democrat Party". Hmmm. That title may need a little work.
What happened to Debbie Lesko. Didn’t she defend Trump at the impeachment trial?
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