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House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that Gaetz had submitted his resignation from Congress “effectively immediately,” in the hope that Florida officials can fill his House seat with another Republican by early January and the party’s thin majority in the chamber won’t be diminished as the next Trump administration gets underway.

“It’ll hurt students who could thrive in an environment like that” if rigor is diminished, she said.

The way Pelosi sees it, that time-consuming primary would have been worth the hassle, as the process could have diminished the perception that Harris was an extension of the Biden administration.

Democratic leaders could not even bring themselves to move an obviously diminished Joe Biden out of the race until it was too late, instead attempting to deceive the public about the state of his decline while hoping for the best.

The hundreds who once gathered by he tracks have diminished since the Mexican crackdown, but several groups were still trying their luck.