Anonymous wrote:Why are they fleeing now? If Trump wins the GOP will be well positioned to wreak all the havoc they want.
I am thinking that rather than go independent and let Jeffries win, they are retiring, to let Jeffires win. A Dem controlled house sooner than later, can get the budget done, can get Ukraine funded and could even codify Roe and IVF (though those would require 60 votes in the senate)
At a minimum, it reduces the risk of a 1/6 repeat if Johnson isn't the speaker, though if the Dems retake the House in the fall, he wouldn't be the speaker anyhow.