I am concerned that this is Dem election plan. Sweet job for stepping down so the Dems can field a clean candidate making the seat more competitive.
I am worried, too. The socialists determined to take this country down are not fools. They very probably have a BIG PICTURE plan and that includes these old goats stepping down. The ones retiring are retiring but they have their cushy wealthy retirement plans to fall back on. They don’t need to have their “jobs” in order to live....they can live quite well without being re-elected. This does, indeed, bother me very much. Now we can’t vote these incumbents out and we have no one to wag our fingers at...we now have new “enemies” just waiting to jump in...look how Obama took down Hillary....I’m afraid people are going to fall for it all over again...only worse.