That’s the whole problem. They are coming to the point where the requirements for that support are becoming an anchor.
There’s a good chance they’ll lose their majority in the House. It won’t make a difference in solidly, overwhelmingly red district’s like Greene, but for the GOP to remain in power it matters.
The first rat off a sinking ship isn’t a leader, it’s just the first one. Its lack of leadership doesn’t preclude other rats following it off the ship.
The cite in the OP (claiming that more Repub resignations are coming) is from the Huffington Post, so I take it with a huge grain of salt.
But even if the anonymous souce in the cite is honest, I have to wonder why any congressmen will resign , instead of just sitting quietly on the bench for 8 months, and then announcing that they won’t run for re-election.
For MTG it makes sense. She gains something for herself by resigning-she feeds her batshit-crszy ego. And, by being the first to resign, she wins a lot of publicity, which leads to money, and a job as Foxnews panel expert.
But for other Repub congressmen, they dont gain anything. They just lose their job and disappear.
That’s a very good question, and if it’s true that this will indeed happen, then the reason why will be pretty significant, I think.
So far the suggestion is that it has become so awful for these people that they are fed up and this is all they have left that they can do. That’s the presumption anyway. Is it true? If we see people resigning as suggested, then maybe so. Otherwise, I guess not.
Probably won’t be as long as 8 months in a lot of cases; many states have their primary elections next year in March through June. If a current GOP congressperson decides to not run for re-election, they’ll likely announce that at least somewhat before the primary.
This one just makes me shake my head:
President Trump’s heated rhetorical attacks on Democratic lawmakers, whom he called out as “traitors” who deserve to be jailed, have left his Republican allies in Washington dumbfounded and skeptical about any bipartisan dealmaking at the end of 2025.
I guess none of those Republicans were in politics when Trump began calling “Lock her up!” at his campaign rallies. He’s run his entire political career on trying to put his enemies in jail.
Now he’s taken the logical next step for a tyrant who always needs to up the ante to keep media attention : “Off with their heads!”
And Republicans are surprised?!?
Clearly they thought that it was BS, like a lot of things Trump claims he will do and never does. And given the history of “TACO”, it isn’t absolutely absurd to think it wouldn’t actually get this far.