Nine out of the 10 Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump are facing primary challenges for their congressional seats.
Fox News reports that a majority of those who joined Democrats and the media circus during the second impeachment trial are facing a “barrage of pro-Trump primary challengers.”
“Some of them,” like Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), according to Fox, “may have a very hard time holding on to their seats.”
The former President has vowed to back challengers to any Republicans who voted in favor of impeachment as they gear up for a fight in 2022.
Republicans who voted for impeachment face barrage of pro-Trump primary challengershttps://t.co/YsVrRwhYGj
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 14, 2021
Republicans Who Voted To Impeach Trump Face Challenges
Cheney and Kinzinger both represent the higher-profile Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump.
Cheney last month called for a criminal investigation into Trump and the events surrounding the Capitol riot back in January.
“Certainly any president who did what we know this former president did has got to be investigated criminally,” she said in an interview with NBC’s Today Show.
Cheney, behind insistence from the former President, was ousted from her leadership role in the GOP and replaced by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) as the House Republican conference chair.
Kinzinger, meanwhile, has become a darling of the mainstream and liberal media.
He recently referred to Republican colleagues who have suggested the Capitol protest wasn’t as bad as the media has made it out to be as “something you see out of North Korea.”
Liz who? If you collected quotes from Liz Cheney and quotes from her future colleagues at MSNBC, would anyone be able to tell the difference?
“Cheney rips Arizona election audit: ‘It is an effort to subvert democracy’” https://t.co/kjW5xJOx7Q— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) June 13, 2021
Trump’s Ready To Fight
Fox News reports that the only Republican who voted to impeach Trump that isn’t facing a primary challenger is Rep. John Katko (R-NY).
They write that Katko “appeared to get back into good graces with GOP leadership quickly after his impeachment vote” and noted “he was one of the faces of a border trip” with House Republicans earlier this year.
He did, however, join Cheney, Kinzinger, and the other Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, in also voting to establish a “9/11-style” commission to investigate the Capitol protests.
Supporters of a Jan. 6 commission are settling on a backup plan to fully probe the Capitol attack: a select House committee
But they’re worried that even in a best-case scenario, it’ll become a total circus. New from me:https://t.co/uGbsdGKcbX
— Sam Brodey (@sambrodey) June 7, 2021
In April, CNBC revealed that Trump’s leadership PAC “Save America” has $85 million on hand heading into the midterms, something one person with knowledge of the matter describes as a “gargantuan sum of cash.”
Another report indicates Trump is teaming up with Newt Gingrich on a new ‘MAGA doctrine’ for the Republican Party, using the famed “Contract with America” as a framework.
With an eye toward winning back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections, Donald Trump has begun crafting a policy agenda outlining a MAGA doctrine.
And he’s teaming up with Newt Gingrich to do it. https://t.co/TpXUUGUQHP
— POLITICO (@politico) May 26, 2021
The original ‘Contract With America’ was instrumental for the GOP in 1994, helping propel the party to a pickup of 52 House seats and 9 seats in the Senate.
In 2022, the GOP needs five House seats and one Senate seat in 2022 to regain control of each respective chamber.
Trump is clearly gearing up for a fight to unseat these Republicans who voted to impeach him. Will it translate to regaining the House and Senate during the second half of President Biden’s term?
This article was originally published by the Political Insider. Read the original article.
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