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Several of the most clamorous members of the House Freedom Caucus won’t be returning to Congress next year, including Chip Roy, who decisively lost his race for Texas attorney general yesterday. He’s not the only one to forgo reelection to the House in pursuit of statewide office—Reps. Byron Donalds, Andy Biggs, Tom Tiffany, Harriet Hageman, and Ralph Norman are each running for governor in their respective states of Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and South Carolina. Rep. Barry Moore is the G.O.P.’s nominee for Senate in Alabama. And while former H.F.C. chair Scott Perry is running for his Pennsylvania seat again, he may find himself ejected, depending on how strongly voters rebuke the G.O.P. this year.