{"id":1205591,"date":"2022-01-10T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205591"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:34:46","slug":"democrat-retirement-disaster-ed-perlmutter-becomes-the-26th-democrat-to-announce-house-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-retirement-disaster-ed-perlmutter-becomes-the-26th-democrat-to-announce-house-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Retirement Disaster: Ed Perlmutter Becomes the 26th Democrat to Announce 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\">26<\/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%2Fdemocrat-retirement-disaster-ed-perlmutter-becomes-the-26th-democrat-to-announce-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=1205591&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\/Ed-P-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO)&nbsp;on Monday said he would not seek reelection, making him the twenty-sixth House Democrat to announce plans to leave the&nbsp;House after the current term and putting more strain on the party\u2019s ability to keep their slim majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter much thought and consideration, I have decided not to run for reelection,\u201d Perlmutter said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve never shied away from a challenge but it\u2019s time for me to move on and explore other opportunities. There comes a time when you pass the torch to the next generation of leaders.\u201d<\/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>The 68-year-old has been in Congress, representing Colorado\u2019s Seventh Congressional District, since he was first elected in 2006. However, the Cook Report projection of&nbsp;the state\u2019s new congressional districts, designed in the redistricting process which happens once every ten years,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/house\/redistricting\/new-maps-and-2022-ratings-arkansas-colorado-west-virginia\">showed<\/a> that the district&nbsp;went from a D+7 to a D+3 but still projected it to be a&nbsp;safe Democrat seat, all of which was reported before Perlmutter announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After much thought and consideration, I have decided not to run for reelection. It\u2019s been a privilege and honor of a lifetime to serve Colorado, the state I love and have always called home. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/42vwPpN3cQ\">pic.twitter.com\/42vwPpN3cQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Perlmutter (@Ed4Colorado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ed4Colorado\/status\/1480604490646450178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans rejoiced at&nbsp;Perlmutter\u2019s&nbsp;\u201csmart decision\u201d to retire.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Courtney Parella, a spokeswoman for the&nbsp;National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) \u2014 the&nbsp;Republican campaign arm that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/house-republican-campaign-arm-expands-list-of-targeted-democrats\/\">targeting<\/a> the congressman \u2014 said in a statement that&nbsp;\u201cEd&nbsp;Perlmutter&nbsp;knows House Democrats won\u2019t be in the majority after the midterm elections. He made the smart decision to retire rather than lose reelection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado GOP chair Kristi Burton Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColoradoKbb\/status\/1480610169885118465?s=20\">said<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;Perlmutter \u201cknew that he was going to lose in 2022, so instead he made the right decision to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2022,\u201d she added, \u201cColorado Republicans will win CD7.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, as Perlmutter becomes the twenty-sixth House Democrat to announce he will not seek reelection, he is one of the only eighteen Democrats to announce actual retirement from the public eye&nbsp;\u2014 including three committee chairs and multiple sub-committee chairs. Eight more Democrats have announced they would run for a different office, either in a local or state election.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, as 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; the deadlines to file for candidacy are getting closer in many states as the midterms approach.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, there have 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. Some members have to run in entirely different districts or districts with only a few constituents.<\/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 loom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats know they have a simple choice: retire or get fired,\u201d said Congressional Leadership Fund Communications Director Calvin Moore. \u201cDemocrats\u2019<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>retirement crisis has become a disaster of epic proportions because they know their failed record will cost them the 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. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO)\u00a0on Monday said he would not seek reelection, making him the twenty-sixth House Democrat to announce plans to leave the\u00a0House after the current term and putting more &#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-1205591","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\/1205591","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=1205591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205591\/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=1205591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}