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Representative Ken Buck's unexpected departure and cryptic comments about potential future exits have sparked speculation and chaos within the Republican Party.
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Insight into the potential impact of these political shifts and how they might influence upcoming elections.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Beau again.
So today we are going to provide a little update
on what's going on with Representative Ken Buck
and some more wrenches that were thrown
and what it means, as well as an update
on what the reporting says about how Boebert
is looking at all of this,
because that's what a lot of people care about.
If you haven't missed the news,
Ken Buck, who is a Republican representative, incredibly conservative, is leaving, just leaving the House.
We knew that he wasn't going to run for re-election, but now he's leaving in the middle of the term, like in a few days.
This has thrown all kinds of things out of whack, especially since he is the current representative
for the district that Boebert is trying to move to to run in their primary and get that seat.
So the update on Boebert first. The reporting says that she is not interested in the special
election that would take place to fill Buck's seat until the end of the term but still plans
on running in the primary. Now she's saying it's to focus on the primary and all of this stuff.
I personally think it has more to do with the fact that she would have to leave her seat,
at least that's the way it appears, that she would have to leave her seat, and that she's not exactly
guaranteed to win the primary. I don't think she wants to take that risk. Or it
really may be that she wants to focus on the primary. We don't know yet. Odds are
more information will come out about that. Now let's go to the new wrench that
Representative Buck threw into things on his way out the door. He was asked about
the pressure that was coming from his colleagues about his decision to leave.
And he said, I think it's the next three people that leave that they're going to
be worried about. This set off a wave of speculation about who these three people
are.
We should probably entertain some other options before we get to that.
First, this was kind of an offhand comment.
He may not actually know three people that are leaving and that was just something he
said and it's really referencing the current state of things and the fact that he may believe
that other people may leave soon because there's so much dysfunction and the shrinking Republican
majority in the House. It may mean absolutely nothing, just just an offhand
comment. Another option is that we have to keep in mind that Buck's been up there
a while. He knows how the Republican rumor mill works and he knows what would
happen if they believed three people were going to leave before the end of
term. They would try to find out who those people are. He might just be trying to cause
a little disruption, a little witch hunt on his way out the door. That is not out of the
realm of possibility. To my way of thinking, Buck really doesn't have that kind of sense
humor, but he might. Again, he's really unhappy, and this is a super conservative
person. He is very right-wing. Nobody can call him a rhino. And because of that,
and because of the fact that he's been up there a while, we have to entertain the
third option, that three people actually did confide in him, and say that they
were thinking about leaving or they might leave or maybe somebody said you
know I want to leave but I don't want to be the first one out the door. There are
more options than what is currently being entertained as far as just
accepting it as a statement of fact. It very well may be that he knows three
other people and that that's a possibility and the Republican Party
from the reporting is basically in an utter panic trying to find out who they
are so they can exert pressure on them to stay. But you have to keep in mind
that it may have just been an offhand comment. I wouldn't start writing
the legislation that you expect the Democratic Party to pass with its new
majority that is going to come just from people leaving before the end of the
term. I would wait to to see if there's any more information or any more
developments before you get that excited about it. Anyway, it's just a thought.
Y'all have a good day.
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