{"id":1587407,"date":"2022-08-03T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587407"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:03:42","slug":"michigan-gop-challenger-wins-us-house-primary-over-incumbent-who-voted-to-impeach-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-gop-challenger-wins-us-house-primary-over-incumbent-who-voted-to-impeach-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan GOP Challenger Wins US House Primary Over Incumbent Who Voted to Impeach Trump"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmichigan-gop-challenger-wins-us-house-primary-over-incumbent-who-voted-to-impeach-trump%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=1587407&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>BYRON CENTER, Mich.\u2014Republican John Gibbs defeated incumbent Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.)\u00a0in Michigan\u2019s 3rd\u00a0Congressional District primary on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Meijer was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> after the\u00a0Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.\u00a0Trump endorsed Gibbs for the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n<p>With 75 percent of the votes reported at 12:24 a.m. on Aug. 3, Gibbs received almost 52 percent of the vote while Meijer registered 48 percent, according to Decision Desk HQ.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs will face Democrat Hillary Scholten in November\u2019s general election in a redrawn 3rd\u00a0District that once favored Republicans, but is now friendlier to Democrats.\u00a0Scholten ran unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs was a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official during the Trump administration. He was appointed by Trump to lead the Office of Personnel Management but wasn\u2019t confirmed by the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs grew up in the Lansing area, and didn\u2019t live in western Michigan until last year.<\/p>\n<p>He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science from Stanford University and a master\u2019s degree in public administration from Harvard University, served as a missionary in Japan, and worked in Silicon Valley as a software engineer before his role at HUD.<\/p>\n<p>Meijer graduated from Columbia University and is the son of Hank Meijer, the executive chairman of the family-owned Meijer grocery chain. He served in the Army Reserves from 2008 to 2016, including a one-year deployment to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Meijer voted to impeach Trump three days after the freshman legislator was sworn into the 117th\u00a0Congress.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 1, in a column that appeared on the Substack page Common Sense, Meijer criticized the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for intervening by spending $435,000 in advertising to bolster Gibbs.<\/p>\n<p>While the spot appeared to attack Gibbs, it also provided airtime for a campaign that didn\u2019t have the funds to increase its name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BYRON CENTER, Mich.\u2014Republican John Gibbs defeated incumbent Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.)\u00a0in Michigan\u2019s 3rd\u00a0Congressional District primary on Aug. 2. Meijer was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump after the\u00a0Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.\u00a0Trump endorsed Gibbs for the GOP nomination. With 75 percent of the votes reported at 12:24 a.m. on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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-1587407","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\/1587407","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587407\/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=1587407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}