{"id":4763,"date":"2021-03-23T18:59:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2021-03-23T18:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:59:38","slug":"9-of-the-10-house-republicans-who-voted-for-impeachment-already-have-primary-challengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4763","title":{"rendered":"9 Of The 10 House Republicans Who Voted For Impeachment Already Have Primary Challengers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;\u201cShe gave the state of Wyoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-siege-donald-trump-censures-wyoming-liz-cheney-6c680223620b74d6594acb4a3ddec3fc\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the middle finger<\/a>.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/20\/politics\/ohio-republican-trump-impeachment-vote-blowback\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a traitor<\/a>.\u201d \u201cWe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trib.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/wyoming-capitol-crowd-cheers-on-gaetz-seeks-replacement-for-cheney\/article_6697002e-3d19-538b-804c-6b9d52e34627.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">want a real Republican<\/a>&nbsp;in there.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are just some of the criticisms that Republicans have lobbed at the 10 House Republicans who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/14\/956621191\/these-are-the-10-republicans-who-voted-to-impeach-trump\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted to impeach<\/a>&nbsp;former President Donald Trump after his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. The criticisms haven\u2019t stopped there, either. Trump told attendees&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-cpac-republicans.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the Conservative Political Action Conference<\/a>&nbsp;last month to \u201cget rid of them all.\u201d 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>especially<\/em>&nbsp;those who hail from more Republican-leaning districts.<sup>&#8220;<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>&#8230;<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>&#8220;<\/sup>It\u2019s early yet, so it\u2019s possible these 10 Republicans curry favor with the party faithful in the coming months, but no matter what they do, their House impeachment vote could still cut their political careers short in the 2022 GOP primaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-fivethirtyeight\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mOVbW0Ov1x\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/9-of-the-10-house-republicans-who-voted-for-impeachment-already-have-primary-challengers\/\">9 Of The 10 House Republicans Who Voted For Impeachment Already Have Primary Challengers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;9 Of The 10 House Republicans Who Voted For Impeachment Already Have Primary Challengers&#8221; &#8212; FiveThirtyEight\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/9-of-the-10-house-republicans-who-voted-for-impeachment-already-have-primary-challengers\/embed\/#?secret=mvzvuOXIrB#?secret=mOVbW0Ov1x\" data-secret=\"mOVbW0Ov1x\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cShe gave the state of Wyoming the middle finger.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s a traitor.\u201d \u201cWe want a real Republican in there.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t stopped there, either. Trump told attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month to \u201cget rid of them all.\u201d 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;especially those who hail from more Republican-leaning districts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s early yet, so it\u2019s possible these 10 Republicans curry favor with the party faithful in the coming months, but no matter what they do, their House impeachment vote could still cut their political careers short in the 2022 GOP primaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,968],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}