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Breaking MTG is leaving Congress next year (Original Post)
malaise
Nov 2025
OP
Yep. It's hard to have political capital if you get beat in a primary as the incumbent
Buckeyeblue
Nov 2025
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Celerity
(54,407 posts)1. So not even finishing her term? (edit: she is leaving Jan 5th, 2026)
MustLoveBeagles
(16,402 posts)2. Surprised by this
malaise
(296,096 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
(3,767 posts)3. Sounds like she is deprogramming from the
Cult. It affects people in different ways.
mr715
(3,564 posts)6. No, she wants to run for President.
This is a long shot, long game.
Buckeyeblue
(6,352 posts)12. Yep. It's hard to have political capital if you get beat in a primary as the incumbent
malaise
(296,096 posts)13. Just wait until her constituents discover
that she is the queen of political grift down to tgevtimingbto collect benefits.😀
dalton99a
(94,115 posts)4. Yep

malaise
(296,096 posts)5. Slobby could be impeached again in a few months
Thanks for the link😀
That is all
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LetMyPeopleVote
(179,847 posts)7. I was surprised by this
malaise
(296,096 posts)8. Wow indeed
Nice Eff you to Donvict
Xolodno
(7,349 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
(296,096 posts)11. Good riddance
😀
True Dough
(26,667 posts)14. Feels like this:
