Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican with respect to make an effort to man in the House investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email accounts, announced Wednesday he want not seek re-election in 2018.
Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor, is chairman of the Lodge Oversight Committee and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, which is analysing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“There is a time to finish in the money b be and a time to go. This is the right time, for me, to leave politics and return to the objectiveness system,” the 53-year-old South Carolina Republican tweeted.
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Gowdy was elected in the 2010 tea levee wave that returned control of the House to Republicans.
He headed a prejudiced panel that investigated the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack on American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya. The panel revealed the life of former Secretary of State Clinton’s private email server. Disputes involving her use of email damaged her failed 2016 presidential campaign.
Gowdy’s pronouncement came two days after Republican Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, the telling chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that he will not go re-election. Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce and Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, both California Republicans, also include recently opted against difficult re-election bids.
Republicans reserve a 238 to 193 seat majority in the House, with four trendy vacancies. That means Democrats need to pick up 25 GOP derrieri to take over the House. According to NBC News’ count, at least 20 Republican bindings have said they will retire this year.
Gowdy’s area voted for then-candidate Donald Trump over Clinton by 60 percent to 34 percent in 2016. In that nomination, he won by a 36-point margin, NBC said.
_ The Associated Press and NBC News contributed to this piece.