Republican who voted to impeach Trump rips Dems for funding challenger

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• GOP Rep. Peter Meijer ripped the Democrats on Monday for their hypocrisy by subsidizing his far-right primary challenger John Gibbs.
• Meijer was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump on a charge of inciting the Jan 6 Capitol riot.
• Democrats are being accused of promoting far-right candidates in the hopes of bettering their odds in the midterm elections.

GOP Representative Peter Meijer accused Democrats on Monday of subsidizing the “entire campaign” of his challenger in Tuesday’s primary election.

Meijer, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2021, faces Trump-endorsed challenger John Gibbs who questions President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

“You would think that the Democrats would look at John Gibbs and see the embodiment of what they say they most fear,” Meijer wrote in an opinion article that appeared on Monday’s edition of the online newsletter, Common Sense. “Instead they are funding Gibbs.”

Some Democrats are endorsing far-right candidates, even spending millions, in the hopes of bettering their chances in the November midterm elections when Republicans are expected to win back control of the House.

Meijer ripped the Democrats for their hypocrisy by funding his far-right primary challenger while prosecuting those who were involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. They have made similar moves in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Illinois.

Meijer accused Democrats of selling out “any pretense of principle for political expediency — at once decrying the downfall of democracy while rationalizing the use of their hard-raised dollars to prop up the supposed object of their fears.”

The Michigan Republican named two Democratic members of the Jan. 6 House committee – Jamie Raskin and Elaine Luria – for backing the campaign against him.

He said Democrats have made a $435,000 ad buy to promote Gibbs in the final days of the Michigan primary campaign.

That amount dwarfs the $345,000 in contributions that Gibbs’ campaign has received since last November, according to Federal Election Commission documents.

“The Democrats are not merely attempting to boost a candidate over the finish line: They are subsidizing his entire campaign,” Meijer wrote.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of the House Democrats that produced and financed the Gibbs ad, has not commented on the accusations.

David Axelrod, one-time adviser to former President Barack Obama, has also criticized the risky Democratic strategy.

“This decision by the DCCC to try and sink @RepMeijer — one of the few Rs to vote for impeachment — and lift his election-denying MAGA opponent in tomorrow’s @GOP primary makes them an instrument of Trump’s vengeance. It’s wrong,” tweeted Axelrod.

Source: New York Post