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Tom DeLay: I'll Resign So GOP May Win
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, T-Texas, announced Monday night that he was retiring from Congress, telling MSNBC's Chris Matthews that it would be better for the Republican Party for him to end his reelection bid. DeLay broke the news to Matthews in a phone call shortly after 10 p.m. EDT. "He told me that although the polls showed him going down - losing - he thought he had a 50/50 chance of wnning," the talk host told MSNBC's "Scarborough Country." [Editor's Note: Find out the real story about Tom DeLay in Targeting DeLay -- Click Here]
"But he said that the beating he's going to take between now and November made it very hard for him to win and it would be very hard to reverse the polling trend. "He said that it was very important for Republicans to hold this seat and that he believed that another Republican had a very good chance - in fact, could walk into this seat. And he's going to allow that to happen tomorrow by withdrawing from the election."
Matthews said that DeLay intends to "spend the rest of his career working with conservative organizations, with whom he's had a great relationship. And he's going to continue to be a leader in the conservative movement - but outside of Congress." [Editor's Note: Find out the real story about Tom DeLay in Targeting DeLay -- Click Here]
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