Issa’s staying, but is he cooked in California?

In early 2014, Rep. Darrell Issa gave a speech at a Republican fundraiser in New Hampshire that gained a lot of attention.

Despite his appearance in the nation’s first presidential primary state — automatically triggering speculation — Issa insisted he had no intention of running for the White House two years later.

“I came here to hopefully shape the debate for 2016, not join it,” he said at the Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in Concord.

Regardless, the event solidified his status as a national GOP player and fundraiser, an image that was well underway as the aggressive chair of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

This week, he gained national attention for something also audacious, though far less lofty, than teasing presidential speculation: potentially jumping state lines as an incumbent to run for a newly configured Republican House seat in Texas, as first reported by Punchbowl News.

After President Donald Trump reportedly urged him to Read Entire Article