Republicans are down another vote in the house. Five more may follow because of Trump!

Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times, announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week.

Buck criticized dysfunction on Capitol Hill in discussing his decision to leave, telling CNN’s Dana Bash, “It is the worst year of the nine years and three months that I’ve been in Congress and having talked to former members, it’s the worst year in 40, 50 years to be in Congress. But I’m leaving because I think there’s a job to do out there.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/politics/ken-buck-leaving-congress-early/index.html

Five more Republican representatives may join Ken Buck in resigning from the House of Representatives if they continue to be dissatisfied with the party's nominee for the presidential election, Donald Trump.

On Tuesday, Buck, a Colorado congressman, suddenly resigned, leaving his seat vacant from next week and shrinking the Republican's slim majority in the House to 218 to 213. Previously, he had announced his intention to retire from Congress at the end of his current term.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...icans-could-resign-after-ken-buck/ar-BB1jQ49t

Ken Buck just told Mike Johnson to go **** him self. The tRumpublican house clown care just got roomier. TRaitor tRump has created the modern version of "The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight".

 

At this point, the US House has NO leadership.

Those in charge are shills for Trump at best, with no values or direction.

 

I like your sig lines.
Every loyal American feels the same way.

 

Well, looks like another impasse where the executive is from one party and the legislature from another?

 

Wow. That is a major FU to Boebert and MAGA. I guess Boebert declined to run in the special election, as it would mean vacating her seat in congress, and pretty much putting the 3rd district in the hands of a democrat. So republicans are down one vote until the special election, then when a republicans wins he will be the incumbent against Boebert et al during the regular election.
Boebert's road to desperately maintaining power just got a whole bunch harder....

 

Indeed.

 

Fascinating chess move on Ken Buck's part.

Buck, one of the first and most hard-core of the Tea Partiers, has had it with the MAGA crap and MAGA clowns in congress and indeed his move makes this all much harder for Beetleboob to get re-elected to any district in Colorado. And it pretty much ends Bucks political career.

This is what Boebert gets for being such an insufferable ******* at every possible level.

 

The "Trump Party" is falling apart right in front the public's eyes. ETTD, never fails. Look how much the MAGA mob hates fellow Americans that don't support the wannabee autocrat/despot.

 

As of 12 Mar 2024 there are 42 U.S. House incumbents not seeking reelection, 23 Democrats, 19 Republicans. 8 U.S. Senate incumbents are not seeking reelection, 5 Democrats, 2 Republicans, 1 independent. Sinema is the independent.


https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S._Congress_incumbents_who_are_not_running_for_re-election_in_2024

 

We are really better off without this guy. When I heard that this guy was one of the soreheads who helped to vote out Kevin McCarthy, my response was don’t the door hit you on the butt on your way out.

This guy really angers me. Supporters spent a fortune to get you elected. Then you bug out on your responsibilities and the Democrats one vote closer to control of the House. Shame on you! You only had 10 months left, you didn’t have the courage to finish out your term.

 

That's the preferred situation. Gridlock in Washington is good.

 

Actually, you have some of that wrong.
On June 25th there will be 2 Elections.
A Special Election for the remainder of Buck's Term, and a GOP Primary for the GOP Nomination in November.
Whoever wins the GOP Primary is certain to be elected in November in this Deep Red District.
The person who wins the Special Election would ALSO have to Win the GOP Primary in order to run as an "Incumbent" in November.
The winner of that special election will fill the remaining months of Buck’s term, but would still need to win the party’s nomination in the separate GOP Primary that day and then the general election in November to secure a full term in Congress.

If that were to happen, Boebert would be completely out of the picture.
Because the only person "running against the Incumbent" in November, would be the Democrat.
***It is very possible that Boebert could win the Primary to be on the ballot in November (without winning the Special Election).

 

you are right. good catch

 

Each cycle there are always turnovers, etc., not sure if this cycle has more than most, but it seems indictive of the current atmosphere.

 

Boebert is still a solid favorite to win the GOP Primary.
UNLESS several competing candidates drop out and her opposition becomes unified.
More candidates staying in and splitting the Anti-Boebert vote obviously helps Boebert.
As of now, Boebert is obviously still favored in the Primary.
“It's really a simple deal: if there’s a lot of people in the race, and the anti-Boebert vote splits between them, then she’ll win by a lot. If one person could coalesce and raise a lot of money, and the anti-Boebert vote goes to that person, then she could lose.”

 

Not in CO-04.

I bet she will come in third.

 

Oh yeah?.
Who is going to beat her? Exact names...Thx in advance...

Latest Poll

U.S. House, CO-4, 2024, Republican primary
Feb. 24
558 LV
Kaplan Strategies
Boebert
32%
Lynch
7%
Boebert vs Lynch (Boebert +25)

Complete Results:
Boebert 32%
Lynch 7%
Holtorf 3%
Flora 3%
Yu 3%
Leisy 1%
Phelen 1%

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/house/2024/colorado/4/

 

Gov. Polis is going to hold the Special Election to replace Buck, for which BimBobert can't run, the same day as the Dist. 4 primary. Buck's strategy is to dilute her votes, hoping that whomever voters vote for to take his place they will also vote for in the primary part. I hope it works I along with the rest of the world am sick of her. I've never been embarrassed about anything in my state before in my life.

 

For the House You have this - As of February 15, 2022, 42 U.S. House members had announced they were not running for re-election. Thirty-five members had announced at this point in the 2020 cycle, and 44 had announced at this point in the 2018 cycle.

So, it may be a bit high, but not extremely high. The senate - The seven U.S. Senators who have announced they are not running for re-election are one more than the six U.S. Senators who had announced their retirement at this point in the 2022 election cycle. Four had done so at this point in 2020, and three had done so at this point in the 2018 cycle.

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S._Congress_incumbents_who_are_not_running_for_re-election_in_2024

 

Boebert COULD Run in the CD-4 Special....Nothing is stopping her...
Its just that if she ran and won, she would almost certainly be replaced by Dem in a CD-3 Special Election for the vacancy (which would reduce the already tenuous GOP hold on Congress).
Don't get me wrong, I want her to lose.
I am just pointing out that given the multi candidate dynamic of the Primary, her loss is not a sure thing.

 

Thanks

 

She'd have to resign from Congress to run in the special. I'm not getting you wrong, I think everyone want's her to lose.

 

Are you a Merovingian?

 

Ok...
BUT, in reality, her resignation would not be required, IF the CD-4 nominating committee nominated her...

 

I don't know how that works. I'll have to read up. Not my district, 3 or 4, so I don't have a vote.