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Wave of congressional retirements may hurt Republicans
(www.newsweek.com)
Good.
Also, I hope their grandchildren never visit them.
I said the other day that we have a choice between a fascist and a grandpa in this presidential election. They said Trump has grandchildren too. I explained that the difference between a grandfather and a grandpa is that grandpas love their grandchildren.
Yep. There's a reason I refer to my mother as my mother and not as my mom.
I use egg donor
If you wanna go that route I’m pretty sure Biden had a granddaughter and hat he refused to acknowledge for a long time.
Good.
It would be a shame if something happened to the others. Just a shame. Especially that one very right wing group. A real shame.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"In the long run, it is hard to imagine this helping the Republican Party," political consultant Jay Townsend told Newsweek.
Townsend said that because Republicans currently hold the majority in the House, the longer that the party's civil war and dysfunctional behavior spills into public view, the more voters will be encouraged to vote blue.
"The continued polarization and the difficulty in passing meaningful legislation are big factors in the recent wave of retirements," Gordon said, using Representative Ken Buck as an example.
Joshua Koss, a Ph.D. student studying congressional retirements at Michigan State University, told Newsweek that leadership does not generally benefit from encouraging members to exit from Congress early because of the advantage that incumbents have.
"Congress is an odd place to work given that staff support means that members don't really have to retire," Ostrander, who specializes in congressional politics at Michigan State, told Newsweek.
More common then, Ostrander said, are those like Senator Joe Manchin who is likely stepping down out of fears they would lose re-election, or those like Buck who retire out of frustrations with their party.
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