{"id":2266,"date":"2026-06-26T04:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:15:34","slug":"the-stench-of-being-a-gop-house-member-is-killing-careers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2266","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;stench&#8217; of being a GOP House member is killing careers: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bulwark political reporter Joe Perticone says it doesn\u2019t pay to be a former lawmaker minion for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2265\">Judge crashes Trump DOJ\u2019s hide-and-seek game on Epstein files<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perticone and his associates have covered the high number of House Republicans retiring or seeking statewide positions back home after the \u201chistorically ineffective\u201d speakership of Rep. Mike Johnson (R\u2013La.) and Trump. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately for the candidates looking to move on up from the federal kiddie table, voters seem unimpressed by their claims to be ready for a seat among the adults,\u201d Perticone reported. \u201cOf the 21 House Republicans running for statewide office this cycle, eight have lost or abandoned their primaries. Just four have won their respective races \u2014 several of whom ran in non-competitive primaries or received a hefty assist from President Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The future of more former GOP House members is still in question, but Perticone said at least one more loss is waiting because Reps. David Schweikert and Andy Biggs are competing against one another for the Republican nomination in Arizona governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat gives? Well, for starters, the stench of currently being in office,\u201d said Perticone, citing a recent interview with Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah), who made the leap from House to Senate in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tough climate,\u201d said Curtis describing this year\u2019s election. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 I think it always has been [toxic],\u201d he added of Republican incumbency in primary races. \u201cI mean, it has its advantages, obviously. But people love the new, shiny things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2263\">Conservative hammers fellows for buying Trump\u2019s lies \u2013 again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who just lost his primary to be Texas\u2019s next attorney general, is another failed lawmaker still trying to figure out how he got here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people like to come up with all sorts of reasons for why individual campaigns work or don\u2019t work,\u201d Roy told Perticone. \u201cI just ran a race, in Texas, against $30 million, and against a bunch of ads saying I\u2019m \u2018not Trump enough.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have to do it,\u201d Roy added of his bid for Texas AG. \u201cI could\u2019ve stayed [in the House] and kept doing my thing and been here for a long time. I wanted to enter the fray to try to fight back in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Roy said candidates with all the on-paper credentials keep falling short this year, citing Ralph Norman\u2019s failed bid to win the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. In fact, two GOP U.S. House members with good credentials both failed to make the runoff. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNancy Mace had a whole bunch of name ID,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Trump endorsed both Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and winner Alan Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery race is unique, but so far, the GOP candidates attempting to leave the House to pursue state-wide ambitions are frequently running into unexpected walls,\u201d said Perticone, suggesting maybe \u201cit\u2019s because they\u2019ve lost the ability to create real legislative results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2261\">Trump bumbling \u2018incoherence\u2019 exposes his political turmoil<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulwark political reporter Joe Perticone says it doesn\u2019t pay to be a former lawmaker minion for President Donald Trump.Perticone and his associates have covered the high number of House Republicans retiring or seeking statewide positions back home after the \u201chistorically ineffective\u201d speakership of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The &#039;stench&#039; 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