'You vote one way, maybe it hurts in the primary. You vote the other way... in my district, it'd hurt me in the general,' Bacon said.
's bipartisan infrastructure bill said he voted for the plan to boost his chance at reelection.
Rep. Don Bacon—a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of bipartisan lawmakers who helped to negotiate the bill—explained that his decision to vote for passing the bill was based on an electability calculation. Freshman House Republican Nicole Malliotakis of New York, the other defector, said she backed Biden's bill toand thwart progressive efforts to push through Biden's larger social spending bill, known as the Build Back Better Act.
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