Death threats, accusations of betrayal and censure by their local parties: for the 6 Republicans running for re-election after voting to impeach Donald Trump, the last 17 months have been a painful lesson in the perils of opposing an unforgiving leader.
Ten out of 211 House Republicans backed the Democrats' ultimately unsuccessful bid to have Trump convicted in a Senate trial last year, believing he should be held accountable for inciting a deadly siege of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Since calling his role in the insurrection the"greatest betrayal" by a US president in history, her fall from grace inside the party has been spectacular. She has been a regular target of Trump's broadsides. As recently as May, he called her"America last,""the face of the Washington swamp" and a globalist who loves"endless, nonsensical, bloody wars."Freshman congressman and military veteran Peter Meijer told MSNBC in the wake of his vote to impeach Trump that he was altering his routine and"working to get body armor, which is a reimbursable purchase.
He is expected to win his August primary against a Trump-backed opponent but it is possible a member of his own family won't be voting for him. Rice reported getting a menacing voicemail a few weeks after the impeachment from a constituent who invited the congressman to "come over to his house for coffee so that he could beat the living hell out of him," a police report cited by NBC said.
But he is alone among the group in not having Trump weigh in on his race and looked likely to advance to the general election, though there are still a lot of votes left to count.
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