[Macho MAGA Man]

Okay, I'm sensing that there's an ulterior motive behind all these House republicans retiring. Like in Trump's first midterm you had lots of GOP lawmakers that deliberately decided not to run so he wouldn't have a majority in both chambers. It seems like the same thing is happening again on purpose. They don't want to give Trump a MAGA mandate.

[central_va]

Slimeballs

[dfwgator]

Bye.

[Dr. Sivana]

Not quite. These folks aren’t thinking about Congress as a whole. They are thinking of their own position, and only their own position within the Congress. If you were a Whig in the 1850s, and didn’t care much about Slavery, and didn’t want to be a Democrat, the Republican Party would not be a welcoming home. You might join them, only to be always looked at with suspicion, and never earning respect, or you might retire.

We are looking at a Party Realignment in action. Goldwater started it, Reagan catalyzed it, Trump is working to make it stick.

[fella]

RINOs abandoning ship hoping the real RATs take their seats.

[NavyShoe]

Just last week she came out really hard against the activist who want to eliminate the Snake River dams. She said in part:

The truth is this process was never about getting results for endangered salmon. It was a reckless pursuit of an activist agenda – a misguided mission to tear out the dams – with no scientific data to back it up. What’s worse is the White House actively and deliberately left out the voices of those who depend on the river system most.

She’s not a fire brand. Wonder what changed her course.

[stocksthatgoup]

D 60% WA 17 2025
Liberty Score

[grey_whiskers]

Yep, the GOP-e is trying to throw the House: they know Trump will win.

Gallager of WI, who voted against impeaching Mayorkas, accepted a high-paying DoD gig shortly afterwards, and announced his retirement from Congress.

FJB.

F the Romneys.

[PghBaldy]

I agree.

[FrdmLvr]

I thought Trump had planned on forcing the RINOs out and putting viable MAGA candidates in those Republican races. Here’s hoping his team is prepared to move on it by having vetted possible candidates in these districts represented by RINOs. I’m happy she’s retiring if she’s not on board with Trump.

[Brilliant]

I think they just don’t want to be part of a Trump government or a Biden government. That plus the fact that the GOP is broke and can’t be expected to fund their campaigns this year.

[pepsi_junkie]

Starting to smell a little like 2018 when the GOP was tired of getting recognized as frauds for blocking Trump after promising for years to do all the things they were visibly blocking trump from doing (Repealing Obamacare, securing the border, etc). So shockingly in spite of fvorable polling a bunch safe GOP congressmen in very safe districts just surprisingly decided to retire. Almost as if they wanted the dems to just win the house so they could be the ones blocking Trump and go back to fooling the voters into thinking they were actually conservatives that wanted to do good things. Which is exactly what happened. What a coincidence.

It's possible they are building a firewall in case Trump wins so he cannot get anything done in congress.

[Deplorable American1776]

Bye! Eastern Washington should get someone better...

[Sirius Lee]

It seems like the same thing is happening again on purpose.

Correct. The GOP has no desire or intention to actually be in a position where it its members might be expected to lead and carry through on their campaign promises.

There is, in fact, no reason for the GOP to exist anymore. A golden opportunity was missed in not creating an official MAGA party in December of 2020.

[metmom]

Are these RINOS then?

Can we perhaps hope, and pray, that they be replaced with more conservative Republicans?

[LS]

Well, as best I can tell, all those who have announced retirement are RINOs/non-MAGA.

[b4me]

Well let’s find some good people and get them elected.