Fate of 10 GOP impeachers since Capitol riot shows 'going against Trump is the death knell'

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Six months after the Capitol riot, the 10 Republican representatives who voted to impeach Donald Trump are fighting for their political lives. Says one pundit: 'I'd be surprised if more than three of the 10 are still in Congress in 2023.'

Trump, too, is just getting started. On the last Saturday of June, he took to a podium on a soggy fairgrounds in northeastern Ohio to bash Gonzalez, a 36-year-old second-term Republican, the first Latino elected to Congress from Ohio, a formerplayer and, most germane to the locale, a one-time Ohio State football hero. Gonzalez cruised to victories in 2018 and 2020, but the hometown crowd nonetheless rippled with boos at the mere utterance of his name.

Says Richardson, the Rice challenger:"Sometimes in life, you only get a chance to make one bad mistake, and Tom made one bad mistake."For her part, Cheney is trying to help her impeachment brethren. The weekend of Trump's rally in Ohio, for instance, she and Gonzalez announced a joint fundraising committee, Cheney-Gonzalez 2022,"so donors who wanted to write checks to both of them" could do so easily, a Gonzalez aide says.

Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of the 10 GOP representatives who vote to impeach Trump for his role in the Capitol riot.What's more, the GOP 10 also have a key ally in Longwell, who earlier this year launched the Republican Accountability Project with a goal of raising $50 million to spend supporting the Republican impeachers as well as local and state Republican officials who faced down Trump's ire by insisting he had lost their states despite his claims otherwise.

Wasserman views Rice and Cheney as most at risk because their districts—in Cheney's case, the entire state of Wyoming—are so deep red that the primary essentially decides the general election. Also, candidates in South Carolina must get more than 50 percent of the vote in a party primary to avoid a runoff for the nomination, which may be difficult for Rice given he faces at least three challengers.

Still, Wasserman senses some real vulnerability for Upton, now 68 and in office since the Reagan era."I'd be very surprised if Fred Upton runs for another term. He won his primary in 2020 with a pretty unconvincing margin for someone who's been there since 1987."

 

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If the district is an Republican stronghold and there's no reasonable possibility for a democrat to win than it may be prudent for democrats and Independents to vote for the Republican incumbent. In other words, beat the Trumplicans any which way we can!

True patriotism, country over party.

They voted the courage of their convictions. Choices have consequences, fair or not.

If Trump says “If you repeat the Lie often enough people will believe.” Well then repeat the TRUTH more - you just can’t give up. Repeat the TRUTH. Repeat the TRUTH.

Before November 3rd Donald was campaigning. After November 3rd Donald was orchestrating a seditious conspiracy under 18 USC 2384. Timing matters. Here’s my first warning from November 11th, eight weeks before January 6th insurrection.

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