Rep. Beth Van Duyne acknowledged Friday that she is “fortunately engaged in a relationship” with fellow Republican legislator Wealthy McCormick after the Georgia congressman filed for divorce earlier this month from his spouse of 12 years.
“I’m single. We’re each mother and father of grownup youngsters and empty nesters,” Van Duyne (R-Texas) instructed DailyMail.com in remarks her workplace later confirmed to The Submit. “His marriage has been over for fairly a while, as I perceive it. He’s filed for divorce.”
The romance between Van Duyne, 53, and McCormick, 55, was first reported by the Each day Mail Thursday night, however a rep for the Georgia lawmaker instructed The Submit the partnership was “outdated information” to the Capitol Hill “rumor mill.”
McCormick’s workplace stated the freshman had been “separated for fairly a while” from his beautiful oncologist spouse, Dr. Debra Miller, and a Hill supply instructed The Submit McCormick and Van Duyne have been canoodling for greater than a yr.
Different sources confirmed that the pair had been noticed holding fingers in Home GOP convention conferences and cozying up to one another on the chamber ground.
A second supply joked that the 2 had taken a web page from the e book of ex-Donald Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade, who shrugged off his affair with Atlanta District Lawyer Fani Willis by saying in a latest interview: “Office romances are as American as apple pie.”
Miller instructed the Each day Mail that she didn’t anticipate her estranged husband to be “forthcoming” about his romance together with his colleague.
McCormick, a former Marine and Navy veteran “clearly has a sort,” one supply instructed the outlet, noting that Van Duyne and Miller have related lengthy blonde hairstyles.
McCormick and Miller have seven youngsters and have been married for greater than twelve years earlier than their Might 3 break up.
Van Duyne has been divorced from her school sweetheart, Chris Wallach, since 2012, in accordance with the Dallas Morning Information. The couple have been married for greater than 17 years.
Each McCormick and Van Duyne signify deep-red districts of their respective states, with the Texas congresswoman having beforehand served as mayor of the Dallas suburb of Irving from 2011 to 2017 earlier than accepting a place within the Trump administration on the Division of Housing and City Improvement.
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