Posted on 10/18/2021 10:29:30 AM PDT by cotton1706
House Budget Committee chairman John Yarmuth’s (D-Ky.) announcement this week that he will not seek another term presaged a critical period in the run-up to next year’s midterm elections as members of Congress contemplate whether to run for re-election in a difficult political environment or to call it quits and move to a new phase in life.
Just how many members opt to call it quits in the looming retirement season — the period stretching after Labor Day and before Martin Luther King Jr. Day when members spend weeks at home with family and friends — will have a substantial impact on next year’s elections, and on the remainder of President Biden’s first-term agenda, especially for Democrats who hold the narrowest of majorities in the House of Representatives.
In recent years, bad election seasons have been made worse by waves of retirements that leave difficult-to-defend open seats up for grabs. Relatively few members of Congress have said they will quit so far this cycle, but the coming weeks mark the kickoff of what has traditionally been the period in which those who will retire say so publicly.
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I like it!
They “retire” when they suspect they might lose.
David Price (D) NC-4 just announced he’s calling it quits.
The author must be an even worse procrastinator than I am.
I suggest the Dems run 25-year-old Commies for the seats in Kentucky and North Carolina -that should do it.
Worse for who? Certainly not the country or normal people.
The left counts and produces votes. I doubt they will lose too much ground.
“David Price (D) NC-4 just announced he’s calling it quits.”
IIRC, his seat is chockful of state employees (Raleigh), colleges (UNC, NC State and Duke) and blacks (Durham). Barring some kind of GOP tidal wave (another 1994 perhaps), this seat will likely stay Dem.
What’s the problem? I have been wanting Yarmuth to go since I first heard about him. And I can think of quite a few Democrats that would improve Congress by retiring from it. How about Pelosi, to start with?
Trying to set the narrative that the coming rout is because of retirements and not their policies and Biden at the helm.
They know to get out while the getting is good. Nobody wants to be in the minority, much tougher to fundraise, thy actually have to work.
Good news about Yarmuth even though no Republican is going to win the 3rd district as currently configured: the district was marginal 15 years ago; it isn’t anymore.
But since we’re redrawing the lines this year.... if the Republicans can somehow get a map through which splits Jefferson County (Louisville) and dilutes its Rat votes into 2 districts without overly poisoning either of those districts, then there may be a chance for a 6-0 sweep of the Kentucky delegation. Don’t place any bets on that, though.
His district lines are changing. It’s likely to still remain a vote sink. The GOP in NC is going for a 12-2 or 11-3 map.
(It’s 8-5 now.)
Donald Trump would make an excellent Speaker of the House. (There is no requirement that the speaker be an elected representative)
“...traditionally been the period in which those who will retire say so publicly.”
Unless you are a member of the GOP-e.
Then you retire two weeks before the election and go work for the MSM.
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