Longtime GOP incumbent will not seek reelection
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who has represented Miami in Congress since 1989, will not seek reelection in 2018, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.
“It's been such a delight and a high honor to serve our community for so many years and help constituents every day of the week,” Ros-Lehtinen told the newspaper. “We just said, ‘It's time to take a new step.’”
In the interview, the centrist Republican maintained that she is not leaving Congress due to disagreements with the Trump administration and the more conservative bloc of her party.
“I've served under all kinds of different dynamics in all these years that I've been in office here,” Ros-Lehtinen said. “Though I don't agree with many, if not most, positions of President Trump.”
But, she insisted to the Miami Herald that “it's not been part of the calculation of retiring.”
The congresswoman said she believes she would win reelection in 2018, even though Democrat Hillary Clinton carried her district last year by more than 20 points over President Trump – Clinton’s largest margin in any GOP-held seat, the Miami Herald said.
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