They wanted to lose the House:
1. They are the COP - Controlled Opposition Party - of the UniParty. They support the DNC and oppose Trump.
2. Many of them want to be gone in case the Hush Fund is made public.
3. Some of them want to be gone in case their complicity with the ongoing Deep State sedition is made public.
2 & 3, IOW: They are hoping that in leaving they will be left alone.
Regardless, by supporting the UniParty, they have guaranteed they will be rewarded in the private sector. None of them is going to suffer as we do under their collective heel.
And contrary to Rush Limbaugh’s disingenuous characterization:
They did not leave because they feared a Blue Wave. They left in order to create the Blue Wave.
They know better than anyone that incumbents nearly always win. They did not want to win.
Rush loves to give the RINOs cover by saying they are afraid of this, that, or the other. He refuses to call their treachery what it is.
They are not cowardly about attacking real conservatives.