In addition to the 8 Texas Republicans who will not be returning to Congress after next year's mid-terms, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace has added a little fuel to the fire, by blasting House GOP leadership in an op-ed for the leftist New York Times, for not getting anything done while they have the majority.
"Well, they don't want to get anything done" said host and Republican strategist, Matt Locke, "I think that's the strategy moving forward into the midterms, you still have a lot of Republicans who do not like Trump, who are 'moderate' or the 'Rino's'. We literally have 4 or 5 months to get something done, and I don't think we're going to get a doggone thing done."
Apparently, a big problem is, there's a lot of big money against the MAGA agenda. And a lot of the Rep's are opting to tap out.
"I think they see the fact that it's no longer profitable to do it, so they're going into the real world, they're going back into the free market where they can make more money. Be lobbyists and get rich, now that they've made money off of you and I."
It's worth noting that 98% of incumbents end up getting re-elected. And as bad as this exodus might seem, in 2018 during President Trump's first term, 34 Republicans did not seek re-election.
In addition to hosting his own podcast, Matt Locke has written a new book: Eye See
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