Mark Meadows who is a known ally to President Donald Trump, has revealed that he will not be seeking re-election. He made this disclosure on Thursday 19th December 2019, hours after President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives.
Mark Meadows who is a Republican congressman representing North Carolina, in his statement, said, he struggled with the decision and came to it after discussion with his family.
“My work with President Trump and his administration is only beginning. This President has accomplished incredible results for the country in just three years, and I’m fully committed to staying in the fight with him and his team to build on those successes and deliver on his promises for the years to come,” he said.
He continued by saying: “I’ve always said Congress is a temporary job, but the fight to return Washington, DC to its rightful owner, We The People, has only just begun.”
Mark Meadows, 60, moved to the North Carolina mountains in the 1980s from Florida and opened a restaurant before getting a real estate license to sell houses. He eventually became a real-estate developer and made millions of dollars before deciding to run in 2012 to replace a Democratic congressman who decided not to seek reelection. He won that year’s Republican nomination after a bruising eight-way primary and won the general election before making a name for himself as a staunch conservative who opposed the policies of President Barack Obama.
Two other Republican incumbents in North Carolina recently announced they would not run again for Congress in 2020 — George Holding and Mark Walker — after their districts picked up many new Democratic voters when the legislature redrew all 13 U.S. House districts after judges ruled it was likely the previous map was tainted with extreme partisan bias favouring the GOP. Meadows’ district had not been considered one that had shifted as much to the left as those other two, the Associated Press reports.