By: Jordan Boyd
Republican voters in Michigan chose to oust incumbent Republican Rep. Peter Meijer, whose first vote in Congress was to impeach former President Donald Trump, in favor of replacing him with the Trump-endorsed John Gibbs.
Meijer, who acknowledged in 2021 that voting to oust the former president “may have been an act of political suicide,” conceded defeat to Gibbs early Tuesday night after results showed the Trump favorite pulling ahead by a few thousand votes. Gibbs will face Democrat candidate Hillary Scholten in November in the battle for Michigan’s District 3, which was recently rearranged from being a Trump district to one that Biden carried by nine points.
While Trump critic Meijer readily voted for Democrat legislation such as the Biden administration’s hefty spending bills and red flag laws, Gibbs ran on an “America First, Always” platform. In contrast, despite incessant mocking from the corrupt corporate media who repeatedly smeared him as an “election denier,” Gibbs acknowledged that there were “widespread irregularities and statistical anomalies in the 2020 election” and demanded a “full forensic audit of what happened in 2020.” This earned him the favor of Trump, who criticized impeachers such as Meijer.