Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC), who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump last year, will lose his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, Mediaite reports. State Rep. Russell Fry won the race in a relative blowout as one of six candidates who were vying to unseat Rice.
Fry needed to cross the 50% threshold to avoid a runoff. Rice was among only 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach the former president after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Trump said of Rice, “He lifted up his hand and that was the end of his political career — or we hope it was.”
Rice defended his vote on Tuesday morning during an interview with NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard.
“You know, the truth will set you free, and I think that Donald Trump is not the future of the Republican Party,” Rice said. “I think, you know, he was a consequential president, and we accomplished things that lifted all people up while he was president.”
Rice added it is time for Republicans to “move on” from Trump.
The South Carolina Republican told a reporter Tuesday evening he had no regrets about voting to impeach Trump.
President Trump !!
Implication being that he only lost because he voted to impeach Trump.
That may or may not be true, but I have a feeling that the race was about more than the Trump impeachment. From this article you would never know
Total lower should be disgraced forever for doing anything to empower the rotten liberals
Looks like every Trump opponent who loses their election is going to blame Trump. As if there could be no possible other explanation for their loss
Let’s see if he regrets it now.
Aren’t RINOs Democrats? In truth, what exactly is the difference between Republicans and Democrats? The same criminals.
Depends on the state
How can we rid ourselves of Mit Romney now?