{"id":1586387,"date":"2022-08-03T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586387"},"modified":"2022-08-03T08:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:04:45","slug":"trump-endorsed-john-gibbs-defeats-michigan-republican-who-voted-for-trumps-impeachment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorsed-john-gibbs-defeats-michigan-republican-who-voted-for-trumps-impeachment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Endorsed John Gibbs Defeats Michigan Republican Who Voted For Trump\u2019s Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ftrump-endorsed-john-gibbs-defeats-michigan-republican-who-voted-for-trumps-impeachment-2%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=1586387&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>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">Trump<\/a> administration official John Gibbs has defeated Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) in a U.S. House primary race that went down to the wire Tuesday night in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michigan\">Michigan<\/a>, Cook Political Report\u2019s Dave Wasserman reported.<\/p>\n<p>With 84% of the vote in, Gibbs led by more than 5,000-votes at the time of publishing, <a href=\"https:\/\/results.decisiondeskhq.com\/aug2-2022-elections\">according<\/a> to Decision Desk HQ. The two candidates traded leads throughout the night before Gibbs finally held on for good after midnight local time.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;ve seen enough: Trump-endorsed John Gibbs (R) defeats pro-impeachment Rep. Peter Meijer (R) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MI03?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MI03<\/a> GOP primary and will face Hillary Scholten (D) in November. <\/p>\n<p>Rating change: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CookPolitical?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CookPolitical<\/a> will be moving <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MI03?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MI03<\/a> from Toss Up to Lean D.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1554683159899508737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gibbs was endorsed by Trump in November and vowed to challenge Meijer, who voted for Trump\u2019s impeachment following the January 6 Capitol riot. The heated race was viewed by many as a referendum on Trump\u2019s influence over Michigan politics.<\/p>\n<p>The race also drew the interest and money of Democrats in the state, seeking to set up a more favorable matchup for their candidate Hillary Scholten. Democrats dished out nearly $500,000 for an ad before the primary painting Gibbs as the true conservative in the race.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cook Political Report, Gibbs\u2019 victory means Democrats are slightly more likely to win the House seat in November, but experts are predicting a \u201cred wave\u201d to sweep the country in November.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs worked for the Trump administration under Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. He was a Trump loyalist from the beginning, writing for The Federalist in 2016 in support of the former president\u2019s run.<\/p>\n<p>Meijer cited his constitutional responsibility in his vote to impeach Trump. \u201cI take the oath I swore to the Constitution, an oath I took under God, seriously and voted accordingly,\u201d he said. Meijer was seeking his second term in the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy voting to impeach President Trump,\u201d Gibbs <a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/post\/pjcxb49717\">wrote<\/a> in December, \u201cRINO Peter Meijer chose to be fawned over by the media &#038; the DC establishment instead of doing what\u2019s right &#038; representing those who voted for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs\u2019 nomination ended a successful night for Trump-backed candidates in Michigan. The former president also endorsed political commentator Tudor Dixon for governor, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tudor-dixon-wins-michigan-republican-gubernatorial-nomination-will-face-gretchen-whitmer\">easily won<\/a> the nomination over four other GOP candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump administration official John Gibbs has defeated Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) in a U.S. House primary race that went down to the wire Tuesday night in Michigan, Cook Political Report\u2019s Dave Wasserman reported. With 84% of the vote in, Gibbs led by more than 5,000-votes at the time of publishing, according to Decision Desk &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1586621,"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-1586387","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\/1586387","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}