Cross-aisle bonds between Rep. Pat Ryan, Rep.-elect John James and Rep.-elect Wesley Hunt were forged in the same class at the storied military academy
reconnected on the sidelines of an Army football game in 2019, they were two old West Point classmates with night-and-day political identities in a similar predicament: Both had just lost congressional bids.
But their bond was sealed during three years in the same close-knit group of roughly 100 students at West Point, then further reinforced by the run-in at their 2019 reunion in New York. Incredibly, another graduate of their class will also be roaming the Capitol halls next year: Rep.-elect Wesley Hunt will join James, whom he counts as a close friend, as the first two Black graduates of West Point to enter Congress.
Next year’s House could use all the cross-aisle alliances it can get. With Republicans only taking a narrow majority — empowering potential rank-and-file rebellions from all sides — they could very well need Democratic votes to perform even basic components of governing.
That isn’t to say that they’ll be able to ignore politics completely. While Ryan the Democrat first won a special election in August, Hunt comes from a Freedom Caucus-aligned district and James won his purple district by half a percentage point. Given that “there’s only 500 or 600 Navy strike fighter pilots at any given time,” Garcia added, he’s struck by “the sheer magnitude of just how weird the odds are on this one — that both have served in the same squadron at the same time to both winning in special elections.”
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