{"id":1587376,"date":"2022-08-03T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587376"},"modified":"2022-08-03T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:55:28","slug":"an-enormous-risk-ex-gop-rep-slams-democrats-for-funding-trump-backed-primary-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-enormous-risk-ex-gop-rep-slams-democrats-for-funding-trump-backed-primary-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An Enormous Risk\u2019: Ex-GOP Rep Slams Democrats For Funding Trump-Backed Primary Winners"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fan-enormous-risk-ex-gop-rep-slams-democrats-for-funding-trump-backed-primary-winners%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=1587376&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DCNF-Dent-Slams-Dems-For-Meddling-Featured-e1659553360148.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>A former Republican congressman slammed Democrats for funding a successful primary challenger to Republican Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan on CNN Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s terrible the Democrats are saying these election deniers are an existential threat to our democracy, and they dump nearly a half million dollars on Peter Meijer\u2019s head,\u201d former Republican Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania said. \u201cDonald Trump, I think gave $5,000, his PAC gave $5,000 to Gibbs and Democrats gave nearly a half million. I get politics is is a rough game, I understand invading another party\u2019s primary, but boy oh boy, they\u2019re taking an enormous risk. I\u2019m not saying this Gibbs is unelectable, he\u2019ll be easier to defeat than Meijer, but Gibbs can win.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/25\/raju-hunt-sotomayor-2022-cnn-democratic-party\/\">(RELATED: CNN Panel Rips Dems For \u2018Meddling\u2019 In GOP Primaries To Boost Pro-Trump Candidates)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dent\u2019s comments came after CNN data reporter Harry Enten gave an overview of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/03\/donald-trump-candidates-win-primaries-republicans-gibbs-masters\/\">primary races<\/a>, including Meijer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/03\/peter-meijer-loses-primary-challenge-john-gibbs-trump-impeachment-michigan-3rd-district\/\">defeat<\/a>. Two primaries involving Republican Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse of Washington were still not officially called.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois blasted the Democrats for their maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean here\u2019s the thing, don\u2019t keep coming to me asking where all the good Republicans are that defend democracy and then take your donors\u2019 money and spend half a million dollars promoting one of the worst election deniers that\u2019s out there,\u201d Kinzinger said on CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/27\/phillips-ball-democrats-meddling-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democrats<\/a> criticized the meddling on behalf of Gibbs prior to the primary election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disgusted that hard-earned money intended to support Democrats is being used to boost Trump-endorsed candidates, particularly the far-right opponent of one of the most honorable Republicans in Congress, @RepMeijer,\u201d Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deanbphillips\/status\/1552008833412878341\">posted<\/a> on Twitter last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/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<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Republican congressman slammed Democrats for funding a successful primary challenger to Republican Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan on CNN Wednesday.\u201cI think it\u2019s terrible the Democrats are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-1587376","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\/1587376","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587376\/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=1587376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}