Submission statement: the Republicans margin in the house will be down to just one seat once MTG officially retires in January. In addition to that, many Republicans in the House are planning on quitting and are now openly criticising speaker Johnson and Trump.
> In the last few weeks we’ve heard quite a few Congress people say they’re going to retire, even resign. What is the scope of this angst in Congress? What’s the source of it?
>>The scope could be pretty big. I’m hearing from Republican sources, lawmakers, aides, and people close to these people who are expecting a lot more retirement announcements in the coming weeks.
>>There are so many reasons for it, but the most immediate is the political environment. It’s been a really tough fall for Republicans. They had completely underperformed in those November elections. There was a special election in Tennessee in a very red district that Trump won by 22 points. The Republican who won only won by nine points.
>>It’s just another data point of the political environment and the mood of the country around Republicans right now. People are looking at that and seeing the writing on the wall and believing that the House Republicans are not going to be in the majority after the midterms, that they’ll lose the majority. And it’s not a very fun place to be.
>>The thing about serving in the House is you get to reevaluate your life every two years, and we’re in that season where people, Republicans especially, are deciding if it’s worth it. And I’m told that many more Republicans are going to say that it’s not.
>Does your reporting give you any sense of numbers and how we can compare that possible number to ones we’ve seen previously?
>>An estimate that one source told me was that close to 20 more Republicans are set to retire.
>That’s a seismic number.
>>It is. We’re already at 23 Republicans who have announced. So it also talks about the mood of the Congress. People are just not happy right now.
Maximilianne on
Or maybe they could have stopped being cuckolds earlier this and restrain Trump
TF_dia on
Trump has been a known quantity for a decade now, this is just rats abandoning a sinking ship.
So thanks for enabling him until the point he became a monster impossible to control I guess. Now the rest of the world, including America is left holding the bag,
Vitali_Empyrean on
Can someone post the image of the guy in the window looking maliciously?
It briefly discusses some frustration among GOP women with Speaker Johnson just being generally bad at his job. I have also heard it suggested that Johnson sidelines them and generally cares less about their opinions.
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Submission statement: the Republicans margin in the house will be down to just one seat once MTG officially retires in January. In addition to that, many Republicans in the House are planning on quitting and are now openly criticising speaker Johnson and Trump.
> In the last few weeks we’ve heard quite a few Congress people say they’re going to retire, even resign. What is the scope of this angst in Congress? What’s the source of it?
>>The scope could be pretty big. I’m hearing from Republican sources, lawmakers, aides, and people close to these people who are expecting a lot more retirement announcements in the coming weeks.
>>There are so many reasons for it, but the most immediate is the political environment. It’s been a really tough fall for Republicans. They had completely underperformed in those November elections. There was a special election in Tennessee in a very red district that Trump won by 22 points. The Republican who won only won by nine points.
>>It’s just another data point of the political environment and the mood of the country around Republicans right now. People are looking at that and seeing the writing on the wall and believing that the House Republicans are not going to be in the majority after the midterms, that they’ll lose the majority. And it’s not a very fun place to be.
>>The thing about serving in the House is you get to reevaluate your life every two years, and we’re in that season where people, Republicans especially, are deciding if it’s worth it. And I’m told that many more Republicans are going to say that it’s not.
>Does your reporting give you any sense of numbers and how we can compare that possible number to ones we’ve seen previously?
>>An estimate that one source told me was that close to 20 more Republicans are set to retire.
>That’s a seismic number.
>>It is. We’re already at 23 Republicans who have announced. So it also talks about the mood of the Congress. People are just not happy right now.
Or maybe they could have stopped being cuckolds earlier this and restrain Trump
Trump has been a known quantity for a decade now, this is just rats abandoning a sinking ship.
So thanks for enabling him until the point he became a monster impossible to control I guess. Now the rest of the world, including America is left holding the bag,
Can someone post the image of the guy in the window looking maliciously?
A short related article also from Vox: [https://www.vox.com/politics/472434/republican-women-revolt-house-mike-johnson](https://www.vox.com/politics/472434/republican-women-revolt-house-mike-johnson)
It briefly discusses some frustration among GOP women with Speaker Johnson just being generally bad at his job. I have also heard it suggested that Johnson sidelines them and generally cares less about their opinions.