Jacobs represents the 27th Congressional District, but was considering a new seat in the 23rd Congressional District. The buffalo district’s announced support for these tougher gun measures came after 10 people were killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket last month.
“Despite this reaction, I really believe I could win this election, but it would be an incredibly divisive election for both the Republican Party and the people of the 23rd district, many of whom I have never represented,” he said on Friday. . “The last thing we need is an incredibly negative, half-hearted media attack, funded by millions of dollars in special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns, violence and gun control.
The 23rd Congressional District of New York strongly supports Republicans. Jacobs, who won the 2020 special election, said that although he would not run for the new congressional district, he would “complete his time as the 27th (district) member of Congress by the end of the year.”
The congressman from New York is the Republican from the 20th house, who leaves the Congress at the end of his term. He is the 18th Republican to either announce his retirement or run for office; GOP representatives Madison Kotorn of North Carolina and David McKinley of West Virginia lost their primary election.
So far, 32 Democrats in the House of Representatives are leaving Congress at the end of the term.
This story has been broken and will be updated.
CNN’s Melissa DePalo contributed to this report.
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