{"id":1081858,"date":"2021-12-03T19:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081858"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:44:30","slug":"jerry-nadler-says-he-will-absolutely-be-running-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jerry-nadler-says-he-will-absolutely-be-running-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Nadler Says He Will \u2018Absolutely\u2019 Be Running in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjerry-nadler-says-he-will-absolutely-be-running-in-2022%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1321775834-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said he will \u201cabsolutely\u201d be running in the 2022 midterm elections, denying growing reports and speculation of the longtime Democrat getting ready to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Nadler \u201crejected\u201d the rumors of him retiring, as well as calling it \u201ccrap,\u201daccording to&nbsp;Manu Raju \u2014 an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/18\/cnn-employee-patrols-congress-for-violations-of-nancy-pelosi-anti-cdc-mask-mandate\/\">infamous<\/a>&nbsp;congressional reporter who usually patrols the halls of Congress stalking Republicans and other members. Nadler said he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d run in the midterms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>If the congressman truly did retire today, he would be the twentieth Democrat to announce retirement and the fourth committee chairman. As he is a&nbsp;close confidant to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) \u2014 voting with her <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/N000002-jerrold-nadler\/116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">99 percent<\/a> of the time \u2014 and has yet to make an official statement that he is running, Nadler may be waiting longer to see what happens with the rest of his party. There has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/19\/nancy-pelosis-retirement-rumors-swirl-democrats-swarm-power\/\">speculation<\/a> about Pelosi calling it quits on the House, instead of having to possibly work in the minority if the Democrats lose their slim majority.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>There was a report in November from the&nbsp;<em>New York Post<\/em>&nbsp;according to \u201cinsiders\u201d that Nadler&nbsp;may call it quits after his current two-year term expires in 2022. One of the insiders told the&nbsp;<em>Post<\/em> that&nbsp;\u201cPeople are wondering when he would decide to retire,\u201d since he has yet to announce his reelection bid yet.<\/p>\n<p>Another person close to the Democrat told the <em>Post<\/em>,&nbsp;\u201cThe congressman has refused to give a straight answer when the subject comes up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nadler\u2019s departure would not surprise some, as he has had health problems in the last couple of years. In 2019, the <em>Post<\/em> <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/05\/24\/congressman-nadler-falls-ill-at-manhattan-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>, the then 71-year-old Nadler&nbsp;\u201cnearly collapsed and had to be rushed to a hospital\u201d during a press conference with New York City&nbsp;Mayor Bill de Blasio. After this happened, Nadler claimed&nbsp;that, due to the \u201cvery warm\u201d room, he \u201cfelt a bit ill\u201d and said he was \u201cobviously dehydrated.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"44.687301587302\">\n<p>In 2002, Nadler also underwent gastric bypass surgery during the August recess after&nbsp;facing&nbsp;\u201cdecades of health-threatening obesity\u201d and&nbsp;peaking at 338 pounds before the surgery, according to a <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrynadler.com\/news-clips\/nadler-last-resort-sheds-weight-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">press release<\/a> at the time. He wrote: \u201cI want to live to see my grandchildren grow up \u2026 How many grossly overweight 80-year-olds do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, last year, the congressman <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/01\/26\/nadler-announces-wife-cancer-diagnosis-will-miss-part-of-impeachment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">rushed home<\/a> and missed part of the impeachment of former President Donald Trump&nbsp;to be with his wife,&nbsp;Joyce Miller, after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said he will \u201cabsolutely\u201d be running in the 2022 midterm elections, denying growing reports and speculation of the longtime Democrat getting ready to retire. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}