{"id":1583196,"date":"2022-08-01T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583196"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:49:29","slug":"house-incumbents-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-face-tough-primary-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-incumbents-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-face-tough-primary-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"House Incumbents Who Voted to Impeach Trump Face Tough Primary in Washington State"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fhouse-incumbents-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-face-tough-primary-in-washington-state%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=1583196&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>Two of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> last year are seeking to stay in Congress, when they face off against Trump-endorsed challengers in the Washington state primaries on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) is set to face eight challengers, including the Trump-endorsed Joe Kent, to represent Washington\u2019s 3rd Congressional District. The state\u2019s top-two primary system means that the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election in November regardless of party affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington\u2019s 4th Congressional District, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) will face off against six Republican challengers and one Democrat. Among the challengers is Trump-endorsed Loren Culp, who lost to incumbent Washington Gov. Jay Inslee in the 2020 gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01\/GettyImages-1229001355-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Loren Culp, who was then a gubernatorial candidate, waves to the crowd during a rally supporting then-President Donald Trump in Bellevue, Wash., on Oct. 10, 2020. (Karen Ducey\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>While Herrera Beutler and Newhouse are still fighting to remain in Congress, four other House Republicans who joined the Democratic effort to impeach Trump have opted to retire: Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), and Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio).<\/p>\n<p>For the remaining four, Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/a-great-night-trump-celebrates-primary-wins-in-nevada-north-dakota-south-carolina_4537359.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">lost his bid in June<\/a>; Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) has won to represent California\u2019s 22nd Congressional District; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/incumbent-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-facing-tough-michigan-primary_4630239.html\">Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) will be in a primary vote<\/a> on Aug. 2; and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will go through a primary on Aug. 16.<\/p>\n<p> Herrera Beutler <\/p>\n<p>A poll (<a href=\"https:\/\/thetrafalgargroup.org\/WA03-22Primary-Poll-Report.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) in early July conducted by the Trafalgar Group found Herrera Beutler in the lead with 30.2 percent support, followed by Kent at 23 percent, and another GOP candidate,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/time-to-rein-in-the-power-of-the-federal-government-congress-candidate-heidi-st-john_4183796.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">Heidi St. John,<\/a> in third with 13.3 percent. Of the respondents, 8.2 percent said they were undecided.<\/p>\n<p>Trump held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MtVvybZq8mE\">telephone rally<\/a> for Kent on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump last year are seeking to stay in Congress, when they face off against Trump-endorsed challengers in the Washington state primaries on Aug. 2. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) is set to face eight challengers, including the Trump-endorsed Joe Kent, to represent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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-1583196","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\/1583196","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583196\/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=1583196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}