Posted on 08/03/2022 8:33:36 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Meijer, one of three impeachment Republicans on Tuesday’s ballot and the sixth to leave Congress after voting to impeach Trump, was projected to lose to Gibbs early Wednesday morning by David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report with 44 percent of the vote reporting. Gibb’s projected victory is an underdog upset.
Meijer’s voting record likely played a large part in his defeat. After voting to impeachment Trump in 2021, Meijer was censured by the Calhoun County Executive Committee of the Republican Party. An heir to his family’s big business fortune, Meijer also voted in 2021 with the establishment to increase the “inflow of cheap blue-collar migrants into jobs held by American residents of rural districts,” Breitbart News reported. In June, the congressman supported President Joe Biden’s gun control legislation.
Meijer is the second pro-impeachment Republican to lose a primary (four others opted to retire). With no realistic primary path for #WYAL Rep. Liz Cheney (R), there will be at most 3/10 pro-impeachment Rs remaining in the House in 2023.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 3, 2022
Gibbs, 43, a former political appointee in Trump’s White House to the Housing and Urban Development agency, positioned himself in the primary as an American First Republican. “There’s somewhat of a low-grade civil war happening in our party right now,” Gibbs explained Monday. “The feeling among the bulk of the voters is that the party is going in a direction that doesn’t represent what regular people want anymore.”
Gibbs attended Stanford University and later developed the iPhone at Apple in Silicon Valley.
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Ironically, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) additionally supported Gibb’s campaign, donating $425,000 worth of TV commercials in the Grand Rapids area. “The ad was a fake attack on Gibbs that was seen by many in both parties as a move to promote his name among Trump’s base,” the Detroit News reported. “It claimed Gibbs is ‘too conservative’ for west Michigan but also said he was ‘handpicked’ by Trump to run for Congress, worked in his administration and would pursue Trump’s policies in office.”
You mean it’s not over yet?
Ay yi yi!
My thoughts exactly. I voted at my polling place last night about 7 p.m., the counter on the machine showed that I had the 218th ballot that was run through the machine. I’m not expecting mass turnout for a primary, bit you’d figure that we’d at least know who won by midday the day after the election.
He developed the iPhone??? All by himself???
The NSA can spy on every voice or typed conversation in America in real time, yet we can't get election results for days, weeks or even months. It's almost like they want it that way. /s
Being voted OUT of office is just the beginning of pain for the coup plotters. Much, much more pain is coming.
For the rest of his miserable, filthy life, he will never walk the streets alone. Retiring into private life is NOT an option for traitors. The same is scheduled for Lizard Cheney. They will forever be looking over their shoulder, wondering if that “that” day is the day. /spit
I know right? I thought it was a done deal
According to WIND AM this morning, Gibbs headed up research at Apple - the callers who know and worked with Gibbs regarded him as Einstein brilliant.
“The NSA can spy on every voice or typed conversation in America in real time, yet we can’t get election results for days, weeks or even months”
The entire point of electronic voting (back in the early days before we thought it would be connected to the hackable Internet) was speedy results.
Total fail!
“The Cook Political Report changed the race from a “toss up” to a “lean Democrat” after it called the race for Gibbs.”—Detroit News
Good riddance to the Billionaire RINO.
We have to get behind this guy for the general. Winning primaries is great but it’s only half the battle.
Not at all. Just sounds like there’s a little bit of hyperbole in the article.
An American Firster hand-picked by 45 to run for Congress works for me!
Since I don’t live in Michigan, I sure hope it works for his FRiends and neighbors!
You mean it’s not over yet?
Ay yi yi!
Meijer, go back to your supermarket and just remember that we want someone who will be for America. You weren’t.
“It claimed Gibbs is ‘too conservative’ for west Michigan but also said he was ‘handpicked’ by Trump to run for Congress, worked in his administration and would pursue Trump’s policies in office.”
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Ruling Dems are so insulated in their elitist club, they think this is abad thing.
Ironically, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) additionally supported Gibb’s campaign, donating $425,000 worth of TV commercials in the Grand Rapids area. “The ad was a fake attack on Gibbs that was seen by many in both parties as a move to promote his name among Trump’s base,” the Detroit News reported. “It claimed Gibbs is ‘too conservative’ for west Michigan but also said he was ‘handpicked’ by Trump to run for Congress, worked in his administration and would pursue Trump’s policies in office.”
running an attack ad is support? i think they ran the ad to attack his conservative roots and it pretty much didn’t matter.
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