I was kinda hoping the GOP would narrow the dems’ House advantage next year. With each departure, this is going to be more difficult.
Conservatives should find DINOs to run in ‘Rat primaries.
Why fight half a battle?
Narrow it? We need to take back the majority, and if Donald Trump wins, we will. This is not 1988 or 1956, I find it odd most people here think Trump will win but seem to think the House is hopeless. If he’s winning, even in a near tie, he’s carrying most districts and anything other more than a narrow rat majority is very unlikely. If he’s winning by more than last time, forget it, it will be a GOP House, maybe narrowly but still.
We lost THIRTY incumbents in 2018 BTW, we did NOT lose due to open seats.
A retirement in safe seat like this means nothing and people peeing themselves over it makes less than zero sense. In this case it’s a GOOD thing, Shimkus is subpar for such a Republican (71% Trump) seat and has long overstayed his welcome. The rat nominee for this seat can’t get 40% let alone win it, and no the NRCC won’t need to spend resources there either, it’s a gimme district, courtesy of rat gerrymandering (they had to put the Republicans somewhere).
In other news, after abandoning his own seat like a bitch last year, Darrell Issa is thinking of running against Duncan Hunter in a safe (for CA) seat. Bastard.
Hunter should go less we risk losing it, but Issa? Hell no.
The Republican Party as it was is no more.
Nothing has been done, that I can see, to replace it.