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Paul Ryan's Prospects Are Grim If He Stays
Reports that he's looking to the exits actually make sense.
Pity party.
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New reporting, first by Huffington Post's Matt Fuller and then by Politico's Tim Alberta and Rachel Bade, suggests Paul Ryan is on his way out of the House -- perhaps leaving at some point during the current Congress, but at any rate before the next one convenes in January 2019.
Whether those reports turn out to be true or not, Ryan has never appeared to see power in the House as a long-term career goal. And the medium-term outlook for Republican leaders in that chamber is extremely glum.