A footnote to McCarthy’s resignation
McHenry has no extra phrases to provide his nation.
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Friday, December 8, 2023
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I ought to have coated this in my put up yesterday, however it’s notable that one other latest member of the GOP Home management is just not looking for re-election. Through WaPo: Rep. Patrick McHenry, who briefly served as appearing Home speaker, is not going to search re-election.
McHenry will be a part of the greater than three dozen members of the Home who’ve introduced they won’t search re-election in 2024 as a result of they’re both retiring or looking for one other workplace. His deliberate departure is among the many most high-profile.
McHenry’s district, which covers elements of central and western North Carolina northwest of Charlotte, is more likely to stay in Republican palms. Donald Trump received the district by greater than 36 factors in 2020, and McHenry has repeatedly received re-election by landslide margins, most lately with practically 73 % of the vote in 2022.
I do not discover his retirement notably noteworthy, per se, and the historical past books will be aware him primarily for his cameo within the McCarthy impeachment (and the hammer heard ‘around the world). But it surely’s notable that the fallout from Matt Gaetz’s movement to vacate has led to vital shifts within the occasion’s management pool within the Home (a pattern I famous within the earlier put up that has been happening for a while).
In his assertion Tuesday, McHenry downplayed the “handwaving and ink spilling” about the way forward for Congress as an establishment, saying he had witnessed loads of change throughout his 20 years within the Home.
“I actually really feel like this establishment is on the verge of the following massive experience,” McHenry mentioned. “Whether or not it is 1974, 1994 or 2010, we have seen the Home evolve over time. Evolutions are sometimes lumpy and disjointed, however at every step new leaders emerge. There are various good and succesful members who stay, and others is on its manner. I’m assured that Parliament is in good palms.”
I agree with “clunky and disjointed”, however much less so with “good palms.”