Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Washington Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 riot, has lost her primary to a challenger backed by the former president.
to his Truth Social platform last week ahead of their primaries. “The rest, including the now disgraced RINO, Liz Cheney, are either gone, or soon will be.”"Joe Kent just won an incredible race against all odds in Washington State," Trump said in a statement."Importantly, he knocked out yet another impeacher, Jaime Herrera Beutler, who so stupidly played right into the hands of the Democrats.
Like other impeachment supporters, Meijer, Beutler and Newhouse had out-raised their rivals. Federal campaign finance records show Meijer out-raised Gibbs in the 3rd Congressional District by more than $2 million. Meijer raised $2.77 million through mid-July, while Gibbs’ haul totaled $484,000. Ahead of the Aug. 2 primary, Caleb Heimlich, the chairman of the Washington State Republican Party, told NBC News he had heard from people on the ground and within the campaigns that the races were “very, very competitive in both districts.”
The GOP incumbents who supported impeachment all have varying tenures in their districts. Meijer was first elected to Congress in 2020, defeating Democrat Hillary Scholten by 6 points. Beutler, first elected in 2010, defeated her Democratic rival in 2020 by 13 points. And Newhouse, first elected in 2014, won his previous general election by nearly 33 points.
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