{"id":1516105,"date":"2022-06-14T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516105"},"modified":"2022-06-14T23:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:04:54","slug":"gop-rep-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-ousted-by-massive-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-ousted-by-massive-margin\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep Who Voted To Impeach Trump Ousted By Massive Margin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-rep-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-ousted-by-massive-margin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516105&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>South Carolina state Rep. Russell Fry beat incumbent Republican South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice handily in the state\u2019s 7th Congressional District GOP primary Tuesday, according to multiple election forecasters.<\/p>\n<p>Fry earned just over the 50% margin of votes needed to win the primary outright and become the GOP nominee without going through a runoff election, while Rice, on the other hand, only managed around 25% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Rice drew former President Donald Trump\u2019s wrath after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/13\/house-votes-impeach-president-donald-trump-incitement-insurrection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voting to impeach him<\/a> in response to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Trump consistently criticized Rice, calling him a \u201cbackstabbing RINO\u201d for his vote, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/south-carolina-gop-reps-nancy-mace-tom-rice-hope-survive-trumps-travel-rcna32555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump endorsed Fry in February and asked voters to give him \u201ca beautiful, beautiful birthday present\u201d on Tuesday, when the former president turned 76 years old, by ousting Rice, NBC News reported. He also asked voters to get rid of fellow South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace.<\/p>\n<p>Rice continued to stand by his vote to impeach, arguing he did the \u201cright thing\u201d regardless of whether he won his primary, NBC News reported.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/pivotal-primary-races-2022-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Here Are The 12 Pivotal Primary Races Of 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Experts had told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Rice was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/14\/nancy-mace-tom-rice-donald-trump-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more likely to lose in the primary<\/a> than Mace, who did not vote to impeach Trump but was still critical of him after the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7450510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7450510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) speaks with constituents during a congressional town hall meeting August 23, 2017 in Society Hill, South Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Trafalgar Group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SC07-GOP-Primary-Poll-Report-0601.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> surveyed between May 26-29 had Fry up 17 points against Rice. The poll had 572 likely GOP primary voters as respondents and a margin of error of 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Fry racked up a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/donald-trump-jd-vance-mehmet-oz-nancy-mace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsements<\/a> from state representatives, while Rice\u2019s only major endorsements came from anti-Trump Republican Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitsnews.com\/2022\/03\/30\/sc7-liz-cheney-backs-tom-rice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liz Cheney<\/a>, former Republican House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myrtlebeachonline.com\/news\/politics-government\/article262032372.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Ryan<\/a> and former Republican Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtw.com\/news\/grand-strand\/tom-rice-honored-by-former-new-jersey-gov-chris-christies-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Christie<\/a> of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing is, everyone is lined up behind Russell Fry,\u201d Lakshya Jain, an election analyst who writes for Split Ticket, told TheDCNF prior to the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s purging. He\u2019s purging. He\u2019s trying to set the Republican Party up as a bunch of yes-men loyalists,\u201d Rice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/14\/how-trump-radicalized-tom-rice-00039287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Politico in an interview Saturday. \u201cThink about that. That\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina state Rep. Russell Fry beat incumbent Republican South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice handily in the state\u2019s 7th Congressional District GOP primary Tuesday, according to multiple election forecasters.Fry earned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}