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April 03, 2006
Tom Delay Drops Out of Congressional Race
Fox News is reporting that Tom DeLay is dropping out of his congressional race and may quit congress altogether:
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom DeLay announced Monday night that he was retiring from Congress, telling MSNBC's Chris Matthews that it would be better for the party for him to end his reelection bid.DeLay broke the news to Matthews in a phone call shortly after 10 pm.
"He told me that although the polls showed him going down - losing - he thought he had a 50/50 chance of wnning," the talk host told MSNBC's "Scarborough Country."
"But he said that the beating he's going to take between now and November made it very hard for him to win but it would be very hard to reverse the polling trend.
"He said that it was very important for Republicans to hold this seat and that he believed that another Republican had a very good chance - in fact, could walk into this seat. And he's going to allow that to happen tomorrow by withdrawing from the election."
FoxNews was speculating that DeLay may announce his retirement from his congressional seat tomorrow. More on this as it develops.
Update 11 PM EST: Fox News is now confirming that DeLay will not finish out his term in congress.
Posted by Steve at April 3, 2006 10:34 PM
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Steve:
I came up in a real tough school in Mass politics, Tom wimped out, Newt wimped out. We need fighters not wimps.
Bill
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at April 7, 2006 04:39 PM
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