Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump Are Fundraising Laps Around Their MAGA Primary Opponents

[AZProgressive]

All seven House Republicans who are seeking reelection after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol are faring well financially, campaign disclosures filed this week with the Federal Election Commission show.

The New York Times points out that despite drawing Trump’s wrath, the seven Republicans are out-raising their primary opponents. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), for instance, raised a war chest of around $6.5 million in 2021, and is entering the 2022 election year with just under $5 million, while her opponent, Harriet Hageman, has about $380,000 in cash on hand. Cheney became a lightning rod for attacks from Trump and his allies after speaking out against the former president’s false election claims, as well as for her prominent seat on the Jan. 6 committee. Former president George W. Bush donated $5,800 to Cheney’s campaign, while establishment figures in the GOP like Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Paul Ryan have each helped with fundraising.

In Michigan, meanwhile, Rep. Fred Upton has about $1.5 million in cash, while state Rep. Steve Carra, whom Trump endorsed, has $200,000. Joe Kent, the Army Special Forces veteran running to unseat Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), also couldn’t match the incumbent’s haul, although the that the gap is narrower ($297,000 for Kent and $422,000 for Butler in the fourth quarter) than some of the other races, perhaps due to his frequent appearances throughout right-wing media, including Steve Bannon’s podcast.

NBC News points out that Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) hauled in over eight times what his Trump-endorsed challenger did in the fourth quarter. Reps. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) and David Valadao (R-Calif.) are also out-raising the field — although Trump has yet to endorse a challenger in either race. Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) is out-raising challenger state Rep. Russell Fry, although Trump only recently endorsed the latter.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-impeach-trump-vote-liz-cheney-fundraising-1294606/

[Phoenix61]

1. Great news!nt

[Ohio Joe]

2. It does not pay to be a magat anymore

People do not want to be associated with a traitor.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Welcome to the Losers Club, where the chairman is djt, chief loser of them all. Sounds fitting to

me.

[Lovie777]

4. GQP have no use for shithole . . .

[zipplewrath]

5. So, the question becomes

Do we donate to these people, even though that may mean they win, or do we hope that they get primaried by a RWNJ that has no hope of winning the general election? It's probably a case by case basis but it might be important next summer for someone knowledgeable to let us know.

[Probatim]

6. No - not ever.

[efhmc]

7. Correct. If one has some cash to donate, there are Dem candidates who need that cash.

[zipplewrath]

9. Roughly my starting point.

My lone exception might be Cheney, and that's hard for me. But I'm afraid whatever comes after her will be worse, regardless of who the democratic sacrificial lamb is.

[Gore1FL]

14. IMO, if Liz Cheney is steamrolled it isn't because she didn't get enough donations from Democrats.

It's your money; spend it as you wish.

[Kaleva]

15. No Dem has a chance of winning Cheney's seat even if running against a RWNJ.

[zipplewrath]

16. Kinda the point

"Better the devil you know"

She won't be supporting the current leadership, and to some extent, while not supporting Pelosi, she could be the occasional vote in opposition to the current GQP leadership. If the dem can't win, better her than those that would replace her. She might even begin to understand the "support" she got from the left and consider it to some small extent.

[Skittles]

18. NO NO NO

NEVER DONATE TO A REPUKE

[Aristus]

8. The GOP has light-years to go before they go back to being an honorable opposition.

But it's a start...

[Ford_Prefect]

13. They will never be an honorable opposition. They haven't been since before Nixon. The myth of their

prior patriotic honor is greatly exaggerated. Just as the myth of conservative reason and justice is. Anything you may imagine to once have been true is now only a figment of our cultural imagination, like trickle-down economics or justice. I do not doubt there have been in the past Republicans and Conservatives who may on a single issue like the environment, women's health, peace, or even Civil Rights have seen the nation's greater good as paramount. Such people are no longer allowed to belong to the contemporary Republican party. The party is owned lock, stock and mailing list by a minority of extremely rich and powerful arch-conservative Christian zealots who have been building it from the inside out as a machine to push their desire for a Dominionist ruled theocracy to the forefront of American political and cultural life.

The party as a whole and many individual office holders at high and very low levels alike are not to be trusted any more than DJT should be. The votes taken in January and since should have made this abundantly clear. The party is toxic at every level and represents the very worst of American political life. One need only look to Georgia to see this in action.

That some of them have abandoned Trump is only sound political reasoning. That they support much of what he and McConnell have wrought should be their defining feature. There is no "both-sides" to this evaluation because there is no longer any moderation in the GOP, only the fear of exposure daylight may bring.

A chilling example is that NOT ONE of those GOP members sitting in the House or the Senate has undertaken to decry the outright strangling of the vote enacted by GOP led legislatures in state, after state, after state. Nor do they appear to support the views of the CDC or medical science regarding COVID.

[zipplewrath]

17. The last was

John Boehner. He understood the difference between leading, and entertaining ones constituents. Mind you I agreed with nothing he stood for, but in the end, he was more concerned about being right, than being popular, even if he had a bad understanding of what "right" was.

[oldsoftie]

10. Excise the cancer of Trumpism!!

Or maybe "Lance the boil" is a better fit

[Picaro]

11. Maybe things aren't so grim after all

I believe that the 2020 Presidential election was a referendum on Trump. He lost big.

With all these stories coming out Democrats need to run on the catastrophe that will occur should the Republicans regain a majority in either house. Tie Trump and the crazy wing around the neck of every Republican—even the rare sane ones.The gloves need to be completely off.

A vote for a Republican is a vote for Trump and the anti-democracy wing.

[AZLD4Candidate]

12. I hope they follow a scorched Earth policy in primaries so it divides the Republiklan Party