WASHINGTON (AP) – Eight-term Texas Rep. Kenny Marchant has announced his retirement.
That makes him the 10th GOP lawmaker to say he won’t run for reelection in November 2020 and the seventh in two weeks. The departures are making it increasingly unlikely that Republicans will be able to regain the House majority next year.
Marchant is the fourth Texas GOP congressman to say he’s leaving. While Texas has long been reliably Republican, its growing suburbs have been trending increasingly Democratic recently.
Marchant was reelected by a 3 percentage point margin last year from his suburban district between Dallas and Fort Worth. He’d won by 17 percentage points in 2016.
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