{"id":1135595,"date":"2021-12-20T21:49:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T02:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135595"},"modified":"2021-12-20T21:49:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T02:49:49","slug":"pelosis-majority-crumbles-three-democrats-announce-retirement-within-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosis-majority-crumbles-three-democrats-announce-retirement-within-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi\u2019s Majority Crumbles: Three Democrats Announce Retirement Within 24 Hours"},"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%2Fpelosis-majority-crumbles-three-democrats-announce-retirement-within-24-hours%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=1135595&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\/pelosi-impeachment-vote-gavel-smug-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Three vulnerable&nbsp;Democrats announced they would not be seeking reelection to the House of Representatives within 24 hours of each other, bringing the total of House Democrats not seeking reelection to 23.<\/p>\n<p>Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/pelosis-majority-crumbles-longtime-new-jersey-democrat-albio-sires-will-not-seek-reelection\/\">Albio Sires<\/a> (D-NJ), Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/pelosis-majority-crumbles-vulnerable-florida-democrat-stephanie-murphy-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2022\/\">Stephanie Murphy<\/a> (D-FL), and Chairwoman of the&nbsp;House Appropriations subcommittee&nbsp;overseeing immigration issues, Rep. <span class=\"rollover-people\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/586642-powerful-house-democratic-appropriator-not-seeking-reelection\">Lucille Roybal-Allard<\/a> (D-CA), announced they would not run for reelection within 24 hours of each other.&nbsp;<\/span><\/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><span class=\"rollover-people\">Sires&nbsp;became the&nbsp;twenty-first Democrat to bow out when he confirmed to the&nbsp;New Jersey Globe he would not seek reelection. He is expected to make an official announcement before the end of the year. While Sires is in a solidly blue district, the announcement came as the&nbsp;state\u2019s Legislative Redistricting Commission has been considering new maps to approve. However, his open seat would reportedly not affect the outcome.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\">During his time in Congress, he&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"rollover-people\">has been a close <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/S001165-albio-sires\/116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">confidant<\/a> to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President&nbsp;Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., now that he is the president, voting with Pelosi 100 percent of the time in the current Congress to help pass partisan agenda items.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Murphy b<span class=\"rollover-people\">ecame the&nbsp;twenty-second Democrat to fold when she told&nbsp;<em>Politico,&nbsp;<\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s been a real honor for me to serve in Congress, but it does come at a personal sacrifice. My time away has been hard on my family and my kids and on me.\u201d&nbsp;While the proposed redistricting map is waiting to be approved by the Florida&nbsp;legislature, it would essentially delete her congressional seat. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\">However,&nbsp;Murphy told <em>Politico<\/em> that her decision was not solely based on her reelection chances or the Democrats\u2019 ability to maintain a majority in the House: \u201cI think I could win in every one of the maps that has been proposed,\u201d she said. But the announcement also comes&nbsp;after&nbsp;she backtracked on her Senate primary bid against Florida congressional colleague Rep. Val Demings (D-FL)&nbsp;in hopes of eventually facing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).&nbsp;Before she backtracked, Murphy was reportedly willing to challenge Demings in a Senate bid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\">During her time in Congress, she has also been&nbsp;a close <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/M001202-stephanie-murphy\/116\">confidante<\/a> to Pelosi and&nbsp;Biden, voting with Pelosi 95 percent of the time in the current Congress to help pass partisan agenda items.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\">Roybal-Allard became the twenty-third&nbsp;Democrat and the third on Monday with no reelection intentions.&nbsp;\u201cServing my Constituents in Congress has been the single most distinguished honor of my life,\u201d she said in a statement.&nbsp;\u201cWhile I will not be seeking reelection in 2022, I look forward to continue to work for the people of my district in the new year and long after I leave public office.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\">In November, Roybal-Allard showed some concern over the&nbsp;redistricting commission\u2019s proposed map in California. Roybal-Allard later said that she&nbsp;has \u201cconcerns about the protections of Voting Rights [Act] districts\u201d after seeing the&nbsp;current draft map for the redistricting happening in California, saying that it is significant in \u201cdiluting of the vote in our Latino communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\">During her time in Congress, she has also been&nbsp;a close <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/R000486-lucille-roybal-allard\/116\">confidante<\/a> to Pelosi and&nbsp;Biden, voting with Pelosi 100 percent of the time in the current Congress to help pass partisan agenda items.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some of those partisan votes include the $1.2 trillion, 2,702-page&nbsp;so-called&nbsp;bipartisan infrastructure bill earlier this year&nbsp;\u2014 which Biden already signed into law \u2014 and the&nbsp;$1.75 trillion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/19\/house-passes-behemoth-build-back-better-act\/\">Build Back Better Act<\/a>&nbsp;(BBB) \u2014 also&nbsp;known as the Democrats\u2019 reconciliation infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>However, while&nbsp;the&nbsp;BBB was considered to be the \u201cmarquee legislation\u201d of Biden\u2019s legislation agenda and would&nbsp;ultimately&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/12\/bidens-build-back-better-will-raise-taxes-on-30-of-middle-class-families\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">increase<\/a> taxes on the middle class, expand and prolong the effects of inflation, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/18\/cbo-build-back-better-act-adds-750-billion-to-deficit-over-five-years\/\">add<\/a> hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. deficit, it was&nbsp;effectively killed by&nbsp;Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). The senator on <em>Fox News Sunday&nbsp;<\/em>this past weekend&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/19\/joe-manchin-to-oppose-4-91-trillion-build-back-better-act-effectively-killing-bill\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cI cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation \u2026 I can\u2019t get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three announcements from the House Democrats come as other older or more vulnerable Democrats have also announced they would leave their current seats, with more still rumored to come. The three announcements make 23 total Democrats: 15 have announced actual retirement from the public eye&nbsp;\u2014 including three committee chairs&nbsp;\u2014 while eight more Democrats announced they would run for a different office, either in a local or state election.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has extensively reported on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2021\/12\/16\/20-democrats-will-not-seek-reelection-in-house-4x-number-gop-needs-to-win-back-majority\/\">Pelosi\u2019s majority crumbling<\/a>&nbsp;and the Democrats\u2019 struggles to&nbsp;keep members in the House and find new candidates to run for office.&nbsp;There have also been rumors of more Democrats abandoning ship in the coming weeks and months leading up to the midterms, as more redistricting maps are accepted and deadlines to file for reelection are getting closer.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Berg, a spokesperson from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), said,&nbsp;\u201cHouse Democrats\u2019 nightmare before Christmas just keeps getting worse. Nobody wants to run as a Democrat because they know voters are rejecting their push for defunding police, higher taxes, and open borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three vulnerable\u00a0Democrats announced they would not be seeking reelection to the House of Representatives within 24 hours of each other, bringing the total of House Democrats not seeking reelection to &#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-1135595","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\/1135595","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=1135595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135595\/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=1135595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}