{"id":34776,"date":"2021-12-07T12:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34776"},"modified":"2021-12-07T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T18:58:41","slug":"chased-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/07\/chased-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Chased Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re a fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/18\/suing-a-cow-is-disqualifying-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep Devin Nunes<\/a> (R=CA), the guy who sued Twitter for being mean to him using a cow mask, I have some bad news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Rep Devin Nunes is retiring.  I&#39;m told he \u201cgot a job offer that he can\u2019t refuse\u201d &#8212; CEO of a new Trump media org.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquiHeinrich\/status\/1467972568116301831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>MediaIte<\/strong><\/em> helpfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/devin-nunes-retiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California is in the process of redrawing its congressional districts after the Golden State lost a seat after the 2020 U.S. Census. As Nunes\u2019 hometown paper the<em>\u00a0Fresno Bee<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/politics-government\/article255730826.html\">noted<\/a>, the congressman would face an uphill battle in a general election unless he were to decide to run in a district that isn\u2019t the one he currently represents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Wasserman<\/strong>\u00a0of Cook Political Report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1458671530083336199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">explained<\/a>\u00a0that if the current proposed map is adopted, Nunes\u2019 22nd congressional district would become an area that voted for<strong>\u00a0Joe Biden<\/strong> by nine points, as opposed to having voted for Trump by five in the last election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s still worth noting that one of the former President&#8217;s strongest allies is leaving Congress when Trump needs his allies the most &#8211; at least in his mind. The only reason Trump won&#8217;t metaphorically try to burn him to the ground is that Nunes is coming to work for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Which will almost certainly turn out to be the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt, Nunes will try to keep a profile with the public, but Trump will subsume him or, failing that, fire him. And one of the more entertaining personalities will disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Which is fine with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re a fan of Rep Devin Nunes (R=CA), the guy who sued Twitter for being mean to him using a cow mask, I have some bad news. NEW: Rep Devin Nunes is retiring. I&#39;m told he \u201cgot a job offer that he can\u2019t refuse\u201d &#8212; CEO of a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/07\/chased-off\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34777,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34776\/revisions\/34777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}