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Is this the beginning of a wave of Democratic retirements?
In the last five days, House Democrats have lost almost 80 years of seniority in Congress with the retirements of Reps. John Yarmuth (Kentucky), David Price (North Carolina) and Mike Doyle (Pennsylvania).
It's when those long-tenured members in powerful positions in Congress and in generally safe seats in their states start heading for the exits that we need to ask whether this is the start of a broader retirement wave about to hit Democrats as they cling to a narrow three-seat majority in the House.
With the trio of recent retirements over the past few days, Democrats now have 12 members either retiring outright or leaving their seats to run for other office in 2022. Republicans have nine open seats as of Monday.
Those retirements for the two parties aren't created equal, however. Among the Democrats' 12 open seats are two (Illinois' 17th and Wisconsin's 3rd) that Donald Trump carried over Joe Biden in 2020 and another four (Florida's 13th, Ohio's 13th, Pennsylvania's 17th and Texas 34th) where Biden beat Trump by 4 points or less.
The danger for Democrats, then, is that wavering lawmakers in other swing seats see the likes of longtime party stalwarts like Price, Doyle and Yarmuth calling it quits and believe that their time has come as well.
It continues:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/politics/democratic-retirements-wave-2022/index.html
President Biden is scheduled to participate in a CNN town hall on Thursday evening in Baltimore to field questions about his administration’s agenda.
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