{"id":937669,"date":"2021-10-29T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=937669"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:28:47","slug":"anti-trump-impeachment-republican-adam-kinzinger-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-trump-impeachment-republican-adam-kinzinger-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Trump Impeachment Republican Adam Kinzinger Announces Retirement"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fanti-trump-impeachment-republican-adam-kinzinger-announces-retirement%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=937669&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\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1330934176-e1635530154407-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), one of ten Republican representatives to vote for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump and one of two Republicans to sit on Speaker\u2019s partisan committee investigating the January 6 incident at the Capitol, announced his retirement Friday after the Illinois Democrats released its redistricting maps.<\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger announced the retirement in the video by saying the \u201ctime is now\u201d to move on from Congress. He also expressed \u201cawe\u201d at the nine other Republicans who voted to impeach Trump \u2014 one who has already announced retirement and the rest facing tough reelections in the midterms coming next year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy disappointment in the leaders that don\u2019t lead is huge,\u201d he said, noting that while being a part of elected office, \u201cDehumanizing each other has become the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve taken it from social media to the streets. We\u2019ve allowed leaders to reach power selling the false premise that strength comes from degrading others and dehumanizing those that look, act, or think differently than we do,\u201d he added. \u201cAs a country, we\u2019ve fallen for those lies, and now we face a poisoned country filled with outrage blinding our ability to reach real strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.1034482758621\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looking forward to the next chapter! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SvdFCVtrlE\">pic.twitter.com\/SvdFCVtrlE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1454090582586974218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Illinois Republican has been a vocal critic of Trump and his own party since January.&nbsp;Kinzinger joined&nbsp;Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) by accepting an&nbsp;invitation from the Democrats to join Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-CA) committee to investigate January 6.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s influence over the party&nbsp;has remained strong since being out of elected office. He has since vowed to campaign against members of his own party that voted to impeach him, including Kinzinger. Upon Kinzinger\u2019s announcement, the&nbsp;former president quickly released a statement saying, \u201c2 down, 8 to go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Trump\u2019s influence in Republican politics, earlier in the month, the&nbsp;Illinois state legislature&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/15\/illinois-democrats-reward-never-trump-adam-kinzinger-by-redrawing-district-to-end-his-career\/\">released<\/a> their proposed borders for the&nbsp;new congressional district maps and placed&nbsp;Kinzinger in the same district as freshman Democrat&nbsp;Rep.&nbsp;Marie Newman (D-IL), Illinois\u2019s Third Congressional District, which has&nbsp;leaned Democrat for&nbsp;decades and&nbsp;would have likely ended in defeat for the Republican.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the&nbsp;Illinois Republican hinted at another office he might run for, saying, \u201cI cannot focus on both a reelection to Congress and a broader fight nationwide. I want to make it clear \u2014 this isn\u2019t the end of my political future, but the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are rumors of&nbsp;Kinzinger looking to challenge&nbsp;Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) in the midterms next year.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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