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Three-term congressional Democrat Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida is calling it quits and deciding not to run for reelection.
It’s widely suspected that an incoming massive red wave will take Democrats out of power in 2022.
Murphy exposed top Democrats like Nancy Pelosi who are pushing a radical left-wing agenda. “I can’t tell you the number of times I said, ‘You can’t keep promising rainbows and unicorns when your political reality is such narrow margins in the House and a dead-even Senate,’” Murphy said.
Pelosi and others have been pulled even farther to the Left by ‘Squad’ members like Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
“They took the difference between rainbows and unicorns and political reality — which is anger and disappointment — and turned that anger and disappointment against their own members,” Murphy continued.
She added that the party’s leadership would “beat moderates into submission” for the purpose of ramping the far-left agenda down the throats of Americans.
“I strongly believe in a citizen Congress, where ordinary citizens run for office in search of duty and service, not in search of a career. And I never intended my time in Congress to become a career,” Murphy added.
Murphy is the 22nd House Democrat to not seek reelection next year, according to OpenSecrets.org which is the nonpartisan group tracking campaign and candidate funding.
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Murphy unseated Rep. John Mica, a 12-term Republican with credentials in the national security feed, in 2016. She rose up to become a top member in the Democratic caucus, serving as leader of the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition, a centrist Democratic caucus.
She also serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Armed Services Committee and the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
News 6 political expert and UCF history professor Jim Clark called the move “bad news for the Democratic party.”
“I think two things are happening. One, she sees next year is shaping up to be a Republican year. It’s just the way things happen. And she’s going to go from being in the majority, where she actually can get some things done, to being in the minority where it is very difficult to get things done. I also think gerrymandering [redistricting] is playing a role in this,” he said.
State Rep. Anthony Sabatini, R-Howey-in-the-Hills, announced he would challenge Murphy next year.
When News 6 reached out for a statement, Sabatini responded with the following:
— Advertisement — “As expected, the enormous strength of our campaign for Congress and plan to make America first again ended up pushing her out.”
