{"id":2530,"date":"2024-01-26T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/democratic-rep-ruppersberger-resigning-from-house-at-end-of-year\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:46:06","slug":"democratic-rep-ruppersberger-resigning-from-house-at-end-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/democratic-rep-ruppersberger-resigning-from-house-at-end-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Rep. Ruppersberger resigning from House at end of year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Democratic member of the House<\/a> has announced plans to retire from office at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) released a statement Friday saying he will leave office at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n

Ruppersberger said he made the decision knowing “now more than ever, Congress needs thoughtful, end-game representatives like me \u2013 members who care more about constituents and our country and less about cable news hits.”<\/p>\n

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“It is time to pass the torch to a younger generation of leaders and I am looking forward to spending more time with my family,” the congressman said.<\/p>\n

He joins nearly two dozen other Democrats<\/a> who have decided not to seek reelection, along with 18 Republicans.<\/p>\n

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Ruppersberger’s district is a solidly blue area and a Republican replacement would be unlikely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He has served Maryland’s 2nd District<\/a> for over two decades after first being elected in 2003.<\/p>\n

However, keeping seats within the same party is only half the fight for many key districts going up for grabs in 2024.<\/p>\n

Party leaders have expressed concern that\u00a0resignations by long-standing members of the House could leave power vacuums to be filled by more radical partisans.<\/p>\n

Rupperberger’s statement on the importance of “constituents” over “cable news hits” reflects a growing sense of disconnect between the outgoing generation of lawmakers and younger would-be elected officials.<\/p>\n

Many outgoing members of the House have announced their intentions to pursue a higher office, such as Maryland’s outgoing Republican Rep. David Trone, who plans to run for the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Democratic member of the House has announced plans to retire from office at the end of the year. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) released a statement Friday saying he will leave office at the end of 2024. Ruppersberger said he made the decision knowing “now more than ever, Congress needs thoughtful, end-game representatives like me … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}