{"id":1191224,"date":"2022-01-05T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191224"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:34:25","slug":"rep-brenda-lawrence-becomes-the-25th-democrat-to-announce-a-house-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-brenda-lawrence-becomes-the-25th-democrat-to-announce-a-house-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Brenda Lawrence Becomes the 25th Democrat to Announce a House Exit"},"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\">24<\/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%2Frep-brenda-lawrence-becomes-the-25th-democrat-to-announce-a-house-exit%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=1191224&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\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1342142260-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Brenda Lawrence\u2019s (D-MI) retirement makes her the&nbsp;twenty-fifth Democrat to make plans to leave the House after the current term, thus putting more doubt on the House Democrats\u2019 ability to keep the slimming majority after the midterm in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence said her decision to retire was \u201cpersonal\u201d after being in public service for three decades,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/04\/rep-brenda-lawrence-retire-congress-end-term\/9091035002\/?gnt-cfr=1\">according<\/a> to the&nbsp;Detroit News. The 67-year-old was also on the&nbsp;Public Schools Board of Education,&nbsp;Southfield City Council, and was Southfield\u2019s mayor before becoming a member of Congress in 2015.<\/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>\u201cI love the 30-year ride I\u2019ve had \u2014 the challenges, the successes, the fighting for democracy. I have so much gratitude for the opportunity I\u2019ve had,\u201d Lawrence said.&nbsp;\u201cBut you have to really understand that this life, it\u2019s not forever. And I will find a way to continue to serve, because that\u2019s in my blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m healthy. I\u2019m at the top of my game,\u201d she continued. \u201cI have the opportunity to turn the page and to be able to start another chapter in my life of leadership, and I\u2019m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Number 2\ufe0f\u20e35\ufe0f\u20e3<\/p>\n<p>Every day a new House Dem sees the writing on the wall and calls it quits.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OIwzp9t0zs\">https:\/\/t.co\/OIwzp9t0zs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael McAdams (@M_McAdams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_McAdams\/status\/1478549272849092609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However,&nbsp;Lawrence is only the latest Democrat to announce she would be leaving the House after the current time. While the number of Democrats leaving gets higher, it casts more doubt on the Democrats\u2019 ability to keep the House or expand their slimming majority.<\/p>\n<p>This is happening as the midterms are getting closer, along with the deadlines to file for candidacy in many states. There have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/house-democrats-flock-to-the-exits-leading-into-election-year-potentially-more-on-the-way\/\">reports<\/a> of&nbsp;Democrats&nbsp;struggling to find new candidates to run in some congressional districts. In contrast, some members have to run in completely different districts with only a few constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence becomes the twenty-fifth Democrat to announce she will not seek reelection in the House. Still, she is only the seventeenth Democrat to announce actual retirement from the public eye&nbsp;\u2014 including three committee chairs and multiple sub-committee chairs \u2014 while eight more Democrats announced they would run for a different office, either in a local or state election.<\/p>\n<p>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>\u201cDemocrats hoped to hit the brakes on their retirement crisis, but instead they\u2019ve thrown it into overdrive,\u201d said Congressional Leadership Fund Communications Director Calvin Moore. \u201cDemocrats can\u2019t quit Congress fast enough because they know they\u2019re about to get voted out of their Majority.\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>Rep. Brenda Lawrence\u2019s (D-MI) retirement makes her the\u00a0twenty-fifth Democrat to make plans to leave the House after the current term, thus putting more doubt on the House Democrats\u2019 ability 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-1191224","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\/1191224","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=1191224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191224\/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=1191224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}