Posted on 12/01/2021 8:26:56 AM PST by Red Badger
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) ambitions of keeping the Democrat majority in the House of Representatives past the midterm elections next year are dwindling as droves of vulnerable Democrats have announced they are leaving their current seats to either retire or seek a different office instead of fighting in a brutal reelection.
Republicans only need to net five seats to pick up the House majority after the midterms. So far, more than triple the amount of Democrats (18 total) have decided to officially call it quits on the House and have left their seats open for a fight, giving Republicans a chance to gain another seat since House Republicans only need to net five seats to gain the majority and retire Pelosi as Speaker.
Vulnerable Democrats will be facing tough reelection battles across the county, having to campaign in districts that more than likely have different lines after redistricting in addition to their having sided with President Joe Biden on many key partisan issues, as his approval numbers after only holding office for ten months have tanked.
This week, vulnerable Democrat Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY), a loyal confidant of Pelosi, was the 18th House Democrat to announce he will be leaving the House to join the crowded race for New York governor. He will be leaving behind a largely suburban district, which would be tough for Democrats to hold without a strong incumbent. This will potentially give Republicans a pickup seat in New York because Democrats have struggled to find new candidates willing to run for office.
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NO WONDER Pelosi is buying a $25 MILLION mansion in Jupiter , Fla.
Isn’t there a bunch of Republicans retiring before 2022?
Will the GOP do anything productive once taking back the House?
We’ll see.
Yeah...the House will flip - likely the Senate, too. Rats (and RINOS) are gonna ‘retire’ and escape with the millions they’ve scammed from us. Move to Florida - like Pelousy...
I am predicting a 40+ seat shift.
Have they ever?.......................
GOP will take both houses easily with big majorities, but wont mean much if they arent genuine patriots, not the same old RINO scum
IMO, PELOSI has plans to become VP once BIDEN is out of the picture. The President and Vice President cannot come from the same state.
Both PELOSI and HARRIS live in California.
How appropriate....’Rats deserting a sinking “ship”.
Just about all of them are in safe Democrat seats so they may not make much of an impact on flipping the House.
They get to keep leftover campaign funds.
Take the money and run........................
Beat me to it.
After they GOP retakes the House, they’ll tone down their rhetoric and criticize Trump supporters, to prove to the media that they’re not “extreme.”
I am predicting a 40+ seat shift.
75.
While they might be voting with the democrat majority and with Pelosi in the democrats’ agenda in congress, I’m pretty sure that a lot of those democrats do not agree with the direction that the democrats in control are taking the country. Thus. to them, it’s better to retire or quit congress, than to continue supporting what they don’t believe in. What a lot of those congresscritters have done is to support party rather than their country and heir own consciences and principles.
Why would you want them to send something that Sleepy would actually sign. I want them to only try and rollback a bunch of things. Wouldn’t mind thr Rats hold the Senate so we can get a lot of phony talk by repukes on how the bills coming out of the house need to pass.
And in doing so, their ‘party’ will become more and more radical, socialist-communist with every election. Eventually it will be all AOC types................................
Just like all the retired NY State educrats and bureaucrats I know. They take their pensions from their bloated state bureaucracies and move to Florida. No taxes, unlike the place they left.
Exactly. If you can’t get the right GOP in I say don’t vote for the lesser. Let the Rat have the seat (Alaska comes to mind). Don’t fight just to hold the Senate. It’s a bad long-term strategy.
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