Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI-1) is retiring.
Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is retiring.
Bob Corker (R-TN) is retiring.
John McCain (R-AZ) just passed away.
Smaller names, but more addition by subtraction:
Trent Franks (R-AZ-8) and Blake Farenthold (R-TX027) both resigned following sexual harassment accusations.
Ileaena Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL-27), the 4th-lowest-"Trump-score" Representative, retired.
Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ-2) retired (14th-lowest House Trump-score, out of 236).
John Duncan (R-TN-2) retired (10th-lowest House Trump score).
Mark Sanford (R-SC-1) got Primaried out (the best way to remove RINOs... his Trump-score was 71.1%).
Robert Pittinger (R-NC-6) got Primaried out by a more conservative pastor.
Sadly, some good ones are going, too...
Rep Dave Trott (MI-11) retired, with a Trump score of 98.8%.
Trey Gowdy (R-SC-2) retired... 97.8% trump score...
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) retired... 96.1% Trump score.
That's numbers 4, 5, 8, 10, and 14 retiring voluntarily, among the worst-Trump-score Pubbies in the House.
The lowest, Walter Jones (R-NC-3) won his Primary on May 8 (43%-29%-27%), against 2 challengers attacking his poor support of the President. No DEM ran in NC-3. Phil Law (BS in IT, Marine), and Scott Dacey (NC-4 county commissioner) split the Conservative vote. The Right shoots itself in the foot again.
“26 Republicans are retiring in 2018 ….”
Well, hopefully they’ll all still score that SWEEEEEET Cadillac retirement package that their constituents will never see...
He’s a “poser!”
He proudly proclaimed, as then head of the Senate Judicary Committee, “Clinton was entitled to whomever he wanted as AG, because ‘he won the election,’” when he (Hatch) voted for that idiot Janet Reno and then scuttled the Whitewater investigation when he had the chance to put the nail in the Clinton coffin!
We’d have SC Judge, Merrit Garland, had Hatch been in charge instead of Mitch!
Hatch hoped to become a SC Judge and thank God, he never got that chance.
Hatch is particularly dangerous for the very reason people believe he’s conservative, when he’ll stab you in the back when push comes to shove!!!