Rep. Victoria Spartz, the Ukrainian-born Republican from Indiana who has sparred with the leaders of her party on several key issues, is sitting out the 2024 election cycle.
Widely mentioned as a possible candidate for Senate, Spartz announced Friday that she won’t be a candidate for the open seat — and isn’t running for a third term in the House either.
“I won a lot of tough battles for the people and will work hard to win a few more in the next two years,” Spartz said in statement. “However being a working mom is tough and I need to spend more time with my two high school girls back home so I will not run for any office in 2024.”
[Her current House district is a safe seat for the GOP. She might have made a compelling candidate for the Senate, but she had long insisted she wasn’t interested in a lifelong career in Washington. One has to wonder whether the battle over the Speaker vote made her conclude that she had better things to do. — Ed]
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