{"id":1240345,"date":"2022-01-25T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T00:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1240345"},"modified":"2022-01-25T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T00:22:52","slug":"pelosis-majority-crumbles-16-term-democrat-rep-jim-cooper-will-not-run-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosis-majority-crumbles-16-term-democrat-rep-jim-cooper-will-not-run-for-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi\u2019s Majority Crumbles: 16-Term Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper Will Not Run for Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fpelosis-majority-crumbles-16-term-democrat-rep-jim-cooper-will-not-run-for-reelection%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=1240345&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\/Jim-Cooper-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Vulnerable Tennessee&nbsp;Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper announced Tuesday he would retire from Congress after 16 terms, making him the twenty-ninth House Democrat to announce plans to leave the&nbsp;House after this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, who will retire from Congress after his current term, blamed his decision on the state\u2019s&nbsp;General Assembly and the&nbsp;once-in-a-decade redistricting. \u201cToday I am announcing that I will not run for re-election to Congress. After 32 years in office, I will be&nbsp;leaving Congress next year,\u201d&nbsp;Cooper said.<\/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>\u201cDespite my strength at the polls, I could not stop the&nbsp;General Assembly from dismembering Nashville. No&nbsp;one tried harder to keep our city whole,\u201d Cooper added. \u201cI explored every&nbsp;possible way, including lawsuits, to stop the&nbsp;gerrymandering and to win one of the three new&nbsp;congressional districts that now divide Nashville.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today I am announcing that I will not run for re-election to Congress. After 32 years in office, I will be leaving Congress next year.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot thank the people of Nashville enough. You backed me more than almost anyone in Tennessee history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C6LE31uFQC\">pic.twitter.com\/C6LE31uFQC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Cooper (@repjimcooper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repjimcooper\/status\/1486058625772793864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Monday, the&nbsp;Tennessee General Assembly <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/tennessee-house-republicans-approve-redistricting-plan-dividing-davidson\/6633140001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">passed<\/a> the redistricting maps that&nbsp;dramatically changed Cooper\u2019s Fifth Congressional District. The new maps separated \u201cDavidson County into three separate congressional districts that will dilute the county\u2019s minority vote,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Tennessean<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPolitical experts say the plan, approved on a 70-26 party-line vote, could flip the 5th to the Republicans, further entrenching the GOP in Tennessee with an 8-1 advantage in the congressional delegation,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Tennessean<\/em> added.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Axios Nashville newsletter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/24\/report-tennessee-democrat-rep-jim-cooper-considers-retirement-due-to-redistricting\/\">noted<\/a> that&nbsp;Cooper would face a difficult reelection if the new maps were adopted, ultimately causing Cooper to \u201clikely\u201d face defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Camille Gallo, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the&nbsp;House Republican campaign committee, said,&nbsp;\u201cDemocrats\u2019 retirement crisis shows no signs of slowing down. No one wants to run on Democrats\u2019 radical agenda of violent crime, open borders, and skyrocketing prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper noted that he announced his decision at this time so other Democrats have more time to campaign. However, there is already a far-left candidate in the race.&nbsp;Odessa Kelly,&nbsp;backed by the far-left group Justice Democrats, announced last April that she hoped to unseat Cooper by primarying him. Kelly bashed Cooper at the time, saying he had&nbsp;\u201cno real record of progressive change in nearly 40 years. This city needs a leader who will fight for the people who make Nashville great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, while Kelly bashed Cooper for not achieving \u201cprogressive change,\u201d he has voted with&nbsp;House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/C000754-jim-cooper\/117\">100 percent<\/a> of the major votes in the current Congress, as the Democrats have tried to pass radical wish list items from President Joe Biden\u2019s legislative agenda.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some of those&nbsp;partisan votes include the $1.2 trillion, 2,702-page&nbsp;so-called&nbsp;bipartisan infrastructure bill earlier this year&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;which Biden has 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>More recently, the House also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/13\/house-democrats-pass-freedom-cheat-voting-bills\/\">passed<\/a> the&nbsp;two \u201cfreedom to cheat\u201d voter bills \u2014 the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act \u2014 which&nbsp;would cripple Republican attempts across the country to increase election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>While Cooper is the twenty-ninth Democrat to announce he&nbsp;will not seek reelection in the House, the congressman is only the twenty-first to announce 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>There have been rumors in recent months of more Democrats making plans to abandon the House as their party is likely to lose the majority.<\/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>Vulnerable Tennessee\u00a0Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper announced Tuesday he would retire from Congress after 16 terms, making him the twenty-ninth House Democrat to announce plans to leave the\u00a0House after this year. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1240345","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\/1240345","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240345\/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=1240345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}