Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, said Friday that he will not return to Congress next year.
“I’m still gonna be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch. I do not intend to join the 119th Congress,” the Republican congressman said on conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s show.
Gaetz abruptly resigned from the House last week, just hours after Trump said he would nominate him to lead the Department of Justice. Still, after his Thursday announcement that he was dropping his bid for that job, it was an open question whether he would seek to rejoin the House in January after he was reelected earlier this month to his Florida Panhandle seat with 66 percent of the vote.
