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It's Wednesday, January 31, 2018. From slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca,

South Carolina representative, Trey Gaudi is not seeking re-election. Now, there's a shot of

confidence to discredited Minkam Poup, Devon Nunes, his memo-league strategy, his wingman is flying the

coop. As a congressman, Gaudi was a really good state prosecutor. You know, I sense that he actually

knew where the truth was, and you could tell this because he would skirt around it in clever ways.

Like, if you looked at his official Benghazi report, it did actually officially clear Hillary

Rodham Clinton, but you know, he also gave the platform to his fellow Republicans who claim

that the report which cleared her didn't clear her. Fine, that's how he played that game. I get

the sense, however, that unlike Gaudi, the discredited Minkam Poup, Nunes, he doesn't really know where

the facts are. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. I could be wrong. I could be giving Gaudi the benefit of the

doubt or improperly slamming discredited Minkam Poup, Devon Nunes. So, Trey Gaudi has decided to spend

more time with his family or other members of House Slytherin. But you know, this isn't the

first Republican to bow out of congressional elections. It is the 34th by my count who won't be

seeking reelection. And we could say, Trey Gaudi is out. I suppose we could also say that

Idaho's Rowell Labrador could take no more. He's out the door. Diane Black won't be coming back.

Dave Trott certainly not. Ed Royce also made that choice. Todd Rukita, about out of this political

theater, Charlie Dent seems spent Luke Messer. He's an honest self-assessor. And like Dave Richard,

thought it better to dessert. Lynn Jenkins, she looks forward to collecting some pensions, Jim Duncan,

his hopes and chances sunken, made the same choice as Bob Goodlatte and said, the hell with that,

were they pushed? Did they jump? Mir semantics, especially when it comes to Jim DeSantis. Joe Barton,

Departon, along with fellow Texan Lamar Smith, Ted Poe, just know. Like Jed, Hen Sarling,

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