Grant Reeher Quoted in Newsweek on Retiring Congress Members

October 19, 2021

Newsweek

Grant Reeher

Political Science Department

Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Congress

Government

United States

Newsweek

Grant Reeher

Two fixtures of the Democratic party's presence in the House of Representatives will retire after 58 years of combined service. Representative Mike Doyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat, and Representative David Price, a North Carolina Democrat, announced that they would not seek reelection. Professor Grant Reeher expects each seat to remain blue. "In North Carolina's case that's being driven by the growth in that state and the number of young people that are being attracted to the areas," Reeher says. "And in Pennsylvania, with the renaissance in Pittsburgh, the new people that it would have attracted would have been more Democratic." Read more in the Newsweek article, "Could Retiring Congress Members in PA, NC Spell Trouble for Democrats Struggling Agenda?"