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They are dropping like flies so fast it is hard to keep track of them. Now another member of the House has announced that he won't run for reelection: Doug Lamborn (R-CO). He has represented Colorado Springs since 2007, but after nine terms, he has had enough. The district is R+9, so some other Republican is likely to win it.
What is especially interesting now is that all three of the Colorado districts represented by Republicans will have open-seat races. CO-03 is represented by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who is moving to CO-04. It is R+7. CO-04 is Ken Buck's district, which may have a dozen candidates running in the primary, including Boebert. It is R+13. CO-06 is Lamborn's district. On the other hand, all of the Democrats are running for reelection. Most are in heavily Democratic districts and are in no danger. Only Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) will have to fight hard. Her district is EVEN.
In other House news, Nevada assemblywoman Heidi Kasama (R) is dropping out of the U.S. House race in NV-03, a highly competitive D+1 district that she could have flipped. This leaves two relatively unknown other Republicans to battle it out for the GOP nomination. Kasama was the best known and best money raiser of the group and now she is gone, greatly improving the chances that Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) can keep her job. Kasama is going to run to keep her Assembly seat as Republicans try to break the Democrats' two-thirds majority in the state Assembly. If the Democrats can pick up one more seat in the state Senate, then with two-thirds majorities in both chambers, they can pass any bill they want and override all the expected vetoes of Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV). It is relatively rare for an up-and-coming politician to give up a decent shot at a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to help his or her party avoid irrelevancy in the state legislature.
Kasama is not entirely home free running for her Assembly seat, though. She will face a primary against Clark County GOP Chair Jesse Law. He has been indicted as a fake Trump elector in 2020. Being an indicted fake elector in the modern Republican Party is probably something of a plus and Law may well campaign on his loyalty to Trump and get his endorsement. (V)