# Matt Gaetz withdraws from AG nomination **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 21, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567 "2024-11-21T17:32:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/22 "2024-11-21T17:49:05Z")
Opened on November 21, 2024, 5:49pm UTC Please, stay on Topic. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/23 "2024-11-21T17:50:26Z")
One down… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/24 "2024-11-21T17:53:06Z")
Found the answer to Florida’s rules. > Florida law allows Gov. Ron DeSantis to quickly call a special election, potentially allowing Gaetz’s replacement to be seated before the start of the next Congress on Jan. 3. I still wouldn’t put it past Gaetz to run. He got two-thirds of the vote earlier this month. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/25 "2024-11-21T17:54:19Z")
> [@mozchron](#): > > Yep. Wonder what happens now with his congressional seat. He resigned, right? I wouldn’t think you can then un-resign. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/26 "2024-11-21T17:54:24Z")
> [@robby](#): > > Unless of course Trump nominates someone even worse than Gaetz for AG, like Rudy Giuliani. 🙄 Hulk Hogan…? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/27 "2024-11-21T17:54:51Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I still wouldn’t put it past Gaetz to run. He got two-thirds of the vote earlier this month. I fully expect it, but maybe he’ll go off to private practice and lectures. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/28 "2024-11-21T18:03:30Z")
I don’t think that he can keep his practices private in the future. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/29 "2024-11-21T18:03:32Z")
I love that the headline about this at the Huffington Post reads: **Gaetz Pulls Out!** ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/30 "2024-11-21T18:09:53Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Well, that was fast. He didn’t even last a full Scaramucci. Observed from Mueller, She Wrote, on Bluesky: “Matt Gaetz: the first person to last negative Scaramuccis.” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/31 "2024-11-21T18:28:16Z")
There is no way that he will go back into the House. If he does, the ethics report gets released. He will get a job as a talking head (heh) on a right wing political show of some kind. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/32 "2024-11-21T18:34:19Z")
What I’m wondering is if his political career is over? (One can hope so.) He is no longer in Congress, and now no longer in consideration for the cabinet. He may have trouble getting elected for anything at this point. That’s assuming whatever was dug up about him doesn’t lead to criminal charges at some point. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/33 "2024-11-21T18:43:58Z")
Assuming the worst candidate is nominated first, this is good news. That being said, it’s hard to conceive of the clown car not adding a different clown. Aileen Cannon, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/34 "2024-11-21T18:44:43Z")
CNN were going to run some more allegations at 12:30. They phoned him for comments and then he withdrew at 12:24. Coincidence I’m sure ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/35 "2024-11-21T18:51:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@mozchron](#): > > > > Wonder what happens now with his congressional seat. > > He resigned, right? I wouldn’t think you can then un-resign. It’s kind of confusing – he resigned immediately his seat in the _current_ 118th Congress, but he had been already reelected to a seat in the _upcoming_ 119th Congress that swears in January 3. He had indicated he would not take that seat so we’d need to look closer to see if he in effect resigned his status as congressman-elect too. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/36 "2024-11-21T18:55:42Z")
I bet he was told that the Ethics Committee report would not be released unless he joins the 119th Congress. He’s going to be a Fox talking head before long. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/37 "2024-11-21T18:58:51Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > a Fox talking head “Talking forehead”, anyways. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/38 "2024-11-21T19:06:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It is not good news until the replacement is named. And it might be that he was originally picked to make the _real_ pick look good in comparison. I resist the final sentence above as both pure speculation and giving Trump a little too much credit for planing ability. But I totally agree with the first sentence above. If I can get a little paranoid myself, I wonder if Trump will give Gaetz a Senior Executive Service Justice Department consolation prize that (a) does not require senate confirmation and (b) allows elevation to the acting AG slot after 90 days, no confirmation required. Looking at the [Plum Book](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2020/pdf/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2020.pdf), I see possibilities. Trump needs to control the AG to lock up his enemies. Someone with only a superficial desire to please will just appoint special prosecutors of the sort who will take years to hand down indictments. Trump must know that. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/39 "2024-11-21T19:06:47Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > He got two-thirds of the vote earlier this month. [joke] Yeah, and he ran unopposed! [/joke] ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/40 "2024-11-21T19:08:29Z")
Am I a Debbie Downer threadshitter for speculating that there will be an even worse AG nomination, and Gaetz will get appointed to something even more wildly inappropriate, and the news cycle will be dominated by “haha libs I bet you regret opposing Gaetz for AG” ETA: should’ve read the thread, looks like this wasn’t an original thought at all. Jesus, this timeline is the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567/41 "2024-11-21T19:12:27Z")
Seen on the interwebs: > [@](#): > > Gaetz not ready for the major leagues, returns to minors Oof. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-withdraws-from-ag-nomination/1010567.md?page=3)