9 Of The 10 House Republicans Who Voted For Impeachment Already Have Primary Challengers
Mar. 17, 2021
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"She gave the state of Wyoming the middle finger." "He's a traitor." "We want a real Republican in there." These are just some of the criticisms that Republicans have lobbed at the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. The criticisms haven't stopped there, either.
Trump told attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month to "get rid of them all." And all but one of these 10 representatives have been publicly rebuked by state or local GOP officials. In total,
nine already face a primary challenger in 2022. But is this opposition real or ... just noise? After all, we're still a
long way from the 2022 primaries, which leaves plenty of time for anger surrounding their votes to impeach Trump to fade.
The 10 House Republicans who backed impeachment, including whether they were publicly admonished by state or local Republican Party committees and whether they have a primary challenger *
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*Valadao lost reelection in California's 21st Congressional District in 2018 but won the seat back in 2020. The Republican in most danger of losing renomination, South Carolina Rep... That's because he must capture a majority of the votes in a primary or runoff to win — whereas the others only need a plurality. In fact, Rice has already been censured by the South Carolina GOP and attracted two challengers, both of whom hold elected office:
After Rice, the next most endangered Republican may be the most well-known name here: Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. As a part of the House GOP's leadership, Cheney will have a huge campaign war chest to help with her reelection bid, but Republican fury over her vote to impeach Trump runs deep: The Wyoming state GOP has censured her, as have more than half of the party's county committees in the state, while her colleagues in D.C. even held a vote on whether to remove her from leadership.
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Anger at Cheney could keep burning, too, given her national profile ... For instance, in 2020 an influx of right-wing primary challengers defeated more moderate lawmakers in six state Senate and House districts and mounted major challenges in about a dozen other seats. Those campaigns were largely backed by conservative groups and Republican leaders who wanted to oust "Republicans in name only," and the same sentiments could boost Cheney primary challengers like state
Sen. Anthony Bouchard and state Rep. Chuck Gray, a pair of right-wing state legislators who have already said they'll take on Cheney. Next up are Midwestern Reps. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who each have a noteworthy challenger with Trump ties: Kinzinger in particular has earned a reputation as a Trump critic ... Read more ...
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