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Breaking MTG is leaving Congress next year (Original Post)
malaise
Nov 21
OP
Yep. It's hard to have political capital if you get beat in a primary as the incumbent
Buckeyeblue
Nov 22
#12
Celerity
(53,242 posts)1. So not even finishing her term? (edit: she is leaving Jan 5th, 2026)
MustLoveBeagles
(13,976 posts)2. Surprised by this
malaise
(291,518 posts)9. Between the Epstein scandal and the election shellacking served up by Dems
MAGAts are in disarray.
I do like her resignation speech.
What a nice fuck you Donvict from one of his darlings.
Bestie Jeffrey is still working on them.
johnnyfins
(3,315 posts)3. Sounds like she is deprogramming from the
Cult. It affects people in different ways.
mr715
(2,442 posts)6. No, she wants to run for President.
This is a long shot, long game.
Buckeyeblue
(6,135 posts)12. Yep. It's hard to have political capital if you get beat in a primary as the incumbent
malaise
(291,518 posts)13. Just wait until her constituents discover
that she is the queen of political grift down to tgevtimingbto collect benefits.😀

malaise
(291,518 posts)5. Slobby could be impeached again in a few months
Thanks for the link😀
That is all
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LetMyPeopleVote
(173,289 posts)7. I was surprised by this
malaise
(291,518 posts)8. Wow indeed
Nice Eff you to Donvict
Xolodno
(7,254 posts)10. Probably some internal polling that shows if primaried...
...by another Republican with Trump's blessing, its going to be a hard fight.
Add to that, even if she won, the House may return to the Democrats. So Trump would be a lame duck and she'll just be keeping the seat warm.
She put all her chips on red and the ball landed on black.
malaise
(291,518 posts)11. Good riddance
😀
True Dough
(25,319 posts)14. Feels like this:
