Republican Rep. George Holding has announced that he won't seek re-election in 2020 after North Carolina's redrawn congressional maps placed him in a heavily Democratic district.

Another Republican retirement: Tom Graves in GA-14. Safe Republican district North of Atlanta. Graves is only 49 and was elected in the 2010 tea party wave, so hasn’t been there long and isn’t that old. He also doesn’t appear to be running for the open Senate seat. Must just not like his first time in the minority?
https://tomgraves.house.gov/uploadedfiles/19_12_5_letter_to_ga14.pdf

Another one bites the dust!
Tom Graves GA-14 GOP.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepTomGraves/status/1202630917648506880

Nick Freitas, who lost the GOP Senate nomination to Corey Stewart, is running against Abigail Spanberger.
https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/freitas-to-challenge-spanberger-for-congressional-seat/article_76c61cd8-8c15-5bc1-b933-f41d909e2aec.html

Politico’s House forecast:

https://www.politico.com/2020-election/race-forecasts-and-predictions/house/

Evelyn Farkas, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia, just announced she’s running for Nita Lowey’s seat. Lowey is the chair of the House Appropriations Committee and announced her retirement a few months ago. Farkas joins state senator David Carlucci of Albany, state representative David Buchwald of White Plains, former NARAL Foundation board chair Allison Fine, and former Justice Department aide Mondaire Jones in the crowded Democratic primary.

Should also be interesting to see who gets to chair House Appropriations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-era-pentagon-official-entering-crowded-democratic-race-to-succeed-retiring-rep-nita-m-lowey/2019/11/17/97ed9168-0959-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html

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Anonymous wrote:100 of the 241 Republicans who were in Congress on January 2017 have either left or announced their imminent departure

The worst ones, like Gym Jordan, Mark Meadows, Devin Nunes and Matt Gaetz, are still clinging to their seats.

Yup. And a lot of those retiring Republicans are in safe seats where people are going to elect clowns just like them. But I think the tsunami of GOP retirements from the House, including multiple Committee chairs and the head of GOP House recruitment, show that no one thinks they have a chance in hell of getting back into the majority.

Anonymous wrote:100 of the 241 Republicans who were in Congress on January 2017 have either left or announced their imminent departure

The worst ones, like Gym Jordan, Mark Meadows, Devin Nunes and Matt Gaetz, are still clinging to their seats.

100 of the 241 Republicans who were in Congress on January 2017 have either left or announced their imminent departure

Steve Knight, who lost by nine points to Katie Hill a year ago, has entered the special election for her seat, along with George Papadopoulos and Navy veteran/Raytheon executive Mike Garcia.

Christy Smith, who represents most of this district in the California state assembly, is the Democrat running and has picked up a ton of endorsements.

When I saw Peter King trending on a fall Monday morning, I figured it was the Peter King who writes the long-running Monday Morning Quarterback column on the NFL.

But no, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the longtime Congressman from Long Island and former chair of the Homeland Security Committee, joins the Republican House exodus and will not seek re-election next year after 28 years in the House.

Seemingly flippable since the district voted for Obama and then for Trump. King won 53-47 last year in his closest election ever.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/469835-longtime-gop-rep-peter-king-wont-seek-reelection?amp=&__twitter_impression=true

Anonymous wrote:Democrat Pete Visclosky of Indiana’s 1st district is retiring after 30+ years in office. Gary area, safely Democratic seat.
https://visclosky.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/visclosky-will-not-seek-re-election-in-2020

Yup. This is one of two districts where Republicans stuffed all of the Indiana Democratic votes to give them an edge in the other 7 districts.

Democrat Pete Visclosky of Indiana’s 1st district is retiring after 30+ years in office. Gary area, safely Democratic seat.
https://visclosky.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/visclosky-will-not-seek-re-election-in-2020

Get the popcorn: George Papadopoulos is running for Katie Hill’s seat.

Anonymous wrote:HUGE decision that will most likely result in 2-3 flipped seats from R to D - North Carolina’s State Supreme Court has thrown out the current Congressional map. Last year the votes for Congress were split 50-50 but Rs got 13 of 16 seats because the state is so heavily gerrymandered. Needs to be redrawn for 2020.
https://www.apnews.com/ebe3e179326d41daa5f8da577300299d

^^^ whoops should be Ds have 3 and Rs have 10 out of 13 total.