Comer says he's planning on running for governor

[thesquanderer]

6. His primary is this coming Tuesday!

I assume he'll still win the nomination, and be re-elected in November.

So now he has announced that, if re-elected, he may be spending much of the first half of his term running for governor, and resigning the second half of his term if he wins the governorship.

Clever time for him to announce this. Too late for his primary opponents to really capitalize on it, but early enough that he'll be able to claim, "Hey, the voters knew I'd be doing this before they picked me."

And if by any chance the Republicans were to hold on to the House, and Comer decides he'd like to stay as long as his party were still the majority, he can decide not to run for governor after all.