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GOP Rep. Tom Rice loses reelection bid after voting to impeach Trump
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina has been ousted from Congress in his Republican primary.
- Rice voted to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection.
- He is the first of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump to lose a reelection bid.
Republican Rep. Tom Rice (S.C.) lost his bid for reelection on Tuesday. The South Carolina congressman is one of just 10 House Republicans who voted in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
Trump-backed candidate State Rep. Russell Fry beat Rice in the GOP nomination. Trump held a campaign rally for Fry in March.
Trafalgar Group conducted a poll in May that had put Rice behind, at 25% to Fry’s 42%. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Though the primary field was crowded, it was mainly focused on Rice and Fry, who played up his endorsement from Trump.
“It’s like I said earlier, on June 14 it’s our turn to vote and on June 14 here in the 7th Congressional District, we’re going to vote to impeach Tom Rice at the ballot box,” Fry said at the March rally while standing next to Trump.
Trump vowed to campaign against Republican House members who had voted in favor of his impeachment, singling out Rice in an interview with The Washington Post.
“You had people drop out of races that they had no intention of dropping out of, and the other ones are losing, like Rice in South Carolina,” Trump told the outlet.
Rice voted to impeach Trump but he also voted to back a challenge to certifying some Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021. He later said he regretted that vote.
After the Trump rally in March, Rice called Trump a “would-be tyrant” and said he only wanted “a ‘yes man’ candidate” in Fry.
In an interview with ABC News earlier this month, Rice indictaed he was open to a reconciliation with the former president. He also said that he could still consider voting for Trump in the future if the former president apologized for his actions on Jan. 6.
“If he came out and said, ‘I’m sorry that I made a huge mistake on Jan. 6,’ then I might consider it,” Rice said.
Source: HuffPost
Max
June 16, 2022 at 8:59 am
Tom Rice of South Carolina has been ousted from Congress in his Republican primary.
Good job people. One less RINO spy in our party now.
Debra Kelly
June 16, 2022 at 8:59 am
Great news, that is the lesson that the rest of the left-leaning RINO’s better pay attention to. We the conservative base is paying attention.
CharlieSeattle
June 17, 2022 at 7:00 pm
“Well……………….Bye.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA
Shirley Davis
June 19, 2022 at 7:00 am
Yes you right wing better stand up for the people who put you in office not side for the LEFT are you getting paid off shame on you like the Supreme Court JUDGES Shirley
Beverly Soltwedel
June 19, 2022 at 8:49 pm
Any half wit who voted to impeach the best President the USA has ever had should be ousted from office-Dumocrat or Republican. Just look at the stupidity we have running our great country down the drain!! Both the president and vp either one have sense enough to pound sand in a rat hole. They and the party in power plus Kinsinger and McCain have just ruined our country!! Every time they open their mouths something stupid comes out. They are need to be ousted!!