{"id":1742864,"date":"2022-11-17T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742864"},"modified":"2022-11-17T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:18:04","slug":"adam-kinzinger-suggests-he-risked-his-seat-to-save-democracy-democrat-gerrymandering-erased-his-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-kinzinger-suggests-he-risked-his-seat-to-save-democracy-democrat-gerrymandering-erased-his-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Kinzinger Suggests He Risked His Seat To Save Democracy. Democrat Gerrymandering Erased His District."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fadam-kinzinger-suggests-he-risked-his-seat-to-save-democracy-democrat-gerrymandering-erased-his-district%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=1742864&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>Congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/republican-rep-adam-kinzinger-backs-democrats-in-key-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Kinzinger<\/a> (R-IL) appeared to claim in a Wednesday interview that he had risked \u2014 and ultimately gave up \u2014 his political career because he stood up and fought against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/been-there-don-that-ny-post-hides-trumps-big-announcement-on-page-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger, who announced over the summer that he would not seek re-election in last Tuesday\u2019s midterms, invoked his time in the military while discussing the issue with former Republican MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace \u2014 and argued that if he was going to cast votes that could send soldiers to die, he had to be willing to risk his own career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Kinzinger: &#8220;If I&#8217;m going to ask people to be willing to die for this country\u2026I have to be willing to give up my career for the same cause\u2026My oath is not to my district, it&#8217;s to the Constitution.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gqL26mh530\">https:\/\/t.co\/gqL26mh530<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tM6p3BVnYj\">pic.twitter.com\/tM6p3BVnYj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1593250751991926791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wallace, who worked in the White House under former President George W. Bush, noted that Trump had crossed her \u201cred line\u201d long before he became president in 2016 \u2014 and she asked Kinzinger why he believed so many Republicans were still saying he hadn\u2019t yet crossed theirs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTribalism,\u201d Kinzinger said, was the simple answer. \u201cYou know, the second \u2014 if one of them says, \u2018Look, I\u2019ve had enough of Donald Trump,\u2019 you get kicked out of your tribe. And then I gotta tell you, the other tribe, to the extent it exists, the anti-Trumpers, the Democrats are not going to accept you because, ah, you\u2019re coming on too late or maybe you still have this one issue I disagree with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger went on to suggest that some simply supported Trump in order to get re-elected \u2014 or out of cowardice \u2014 after which he referenced his transition from the military to Congress. Noting that he returned from Iraq in 2009 and got elected in 2010, he said, \u201cI remember thinking, if I\u2019m going to ask people to be willing to die for this country \u2014 and obviously I\u2019m going to have to take votes on that and I have \u2014 I have to be willing to give up my career for the same cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy oath is not to my district, it\u2019s to the Constitution,\u201d Kinzinger concluded.<\/p>\n<p>But the Illinois congressman did not give up his career in order to defend the Constitution \u2014 he was effectively forced out of Congress when Illinois Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/videos\/illinois-may-be-the-worst-democratic-gerrymander-in-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gerrymandered<\/a> his district out of existence. Illinois, a reliably blue state, skewed the map even further when they redrew the districts in such a way that Republicans \u2014 who held five of the state\u2019s 17 seats \u2014 could only pull off wins in three in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllinois is the worst gerrymander in the country drawn by Democrats,\u201d FiveThirtyEight senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/house-republican-calls-it-quits-after-approval-of-new-illinois-districts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kinzinger<\/a> announced that he would not seek reelection just 12 hours after the new map was approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) appeared to claim in a Wednesday interview that he had risked \u2014 and ultimately gave up \u2014 his political career because he stood up and fought against former President Donald Trump. Kinzinger, who announced over the summer that he would not seek re-election in last Tuesday\u2019s midterms, invoked his time in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1742867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742864","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}