{"id":1502880,"date":"2022-06-03T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502880"},"modified":"2022-06-03T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:34:15","slug":"one-week-after-supporting-ar-15-ban-republican-rep-chris-jacobs-announces-he-wont-run-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-week-after-supporting-ar-15-ban-republican-rep-chris-jacobs-announces-he-wont-run-for-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"One Week After Supporting AR-15 Ban, Republican Rep. Chris Jacobs Announces He Won\u2019t Run For Re-Election"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fone-week-after-supporting-ar-15-ban-republican-rep-chris-jacobs-announces-he-wont-run-for-re-election%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=1502880&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Just one week after announcing he would support banning AR-15s and other \u201cassault weapons,\u201d Republican New York Rep. Chris Jacobs announced that he would not run for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs, a first-term congressman, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/27\/republican-support-assault-weapons-ban\/\">said<\/a> May 27 that he would vote for \u201can assault weapons ban bill\u2026 that would ban something like an AR-15.\u201d His promise was widely criticized by conservatives, including Donald Trump Jr. Several New York elected officials publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/02\/political-right-targets-rep-chris-jacobs-over-gun-control-support\/\">considered<\/a> challenging him in a primary, while others noted that \u201cassault weapon\u201d is not a category of firearm, and that the AR-15 is one of the most sporting rifles on the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe I could win this election, but it would be an incredibly divisive election for both the Republican Party and the 23rd District, many of whom I have not ever represented. The last thing we need is an incredibly negative half-truth-filled media attack, funded by millions of dollars of special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns and gun violence and gun control,\u201d Jacobs said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congressman Chris Jacobs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJacobs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJacobs<\/a> just announced he will not run for election in NY-23 after losing support from Republicans and Conservatives for making remarks a week ago in support of a federal assault weapons ban. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R0PbCT2jfL\">pic.twitter.com\/R0PbCT2jfL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Whalen (@RyanWhalenCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanWhalenCT\/status\/1532815863577026561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The National Rifle Association had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobs4congress.com\/jacobs-endorsed-by-national-rifle-association\/\">endorsed<\/a> Jacobs in 2020, citing his previous opposition to red flag laws and New York\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/07\/new-york-gun-control-safe-act-emergency-gun-violence-cuomo\/\">ban<\/a> on magazines that carry more than seven rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs currently represents the <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-2022-maps\/new-york\/\">27th District<\/a>, which runs along New York\u2019s northwestern border with Canada from the suburbs of Buffalo to Rochester. He was moved to the 23rd as a result of redistricting. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/01\/new-york-judge-map-kathy-hochul\/\">(RELATED: Judge Throws Out New York Dems\u2019 Dream Redistricting Map)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacobs is the 48th member of the House of Representatives to <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgallery.house.gov\/member-data\/casualty-list\">decline<\/a> to run for re-election in November, and the 17th Republican. Nine other members have resigned before finishing out their terms, including two members of New York\u2019s delegation, Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/10\/tom-reed-resigns-twelve-year-career-new-york\/\">Tom Reed<\/a> and Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/03\/antonio-delgado-named-new-york-lieutenant-governor\/\">Antonio Delgado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before entering Congress, Jacobs <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobs.house.gov\/about\">served<\/a> as a New York State Senator and in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the George H.W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one week after announcing he would support banning AR-15s and other \u201cassault weapons,\u201d Republican New York Rep. Chris Jacobs announced that he would not run for re-election.Jacobs,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502880","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\/1502880","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502880\/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=1502880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}