GOP angst over midterms grows [View all]
BY SCOTT WONG - 01/11/18 06:00 AM EST
For some Republicans, it’s starting to feel like 2006 — a wave election year that swept Democrats back into power in the House and Senate.
The retirement of two longtime California Republicans this week — just the latest in a string of House Republicans heading for the exits — has caused panic among some in the GOP who say it’s yet another sign that an anti-Trump, Democratic wave is forming.
“It’s a tough election cycle for Republicans; we know that going in,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who is not running for reelection after representing a heavily Hispanic Miami district for nearly 30 years. “It’s starting to feel very scary for moderate Republicans,” she said.
Rep. Darrell Issa, who won reelection by a slim 1,621-vote margin in 2016, said Wednesday this term would be his last, despite insisting for months that he was running for reelection.
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