Former President Donald Trump has endorsed a former campaign and White House aide to challenge a Republican congressman from Ohio who voted to impeach him last month — his first such endorsement in what’s likely to become an effort to purge anti-Trump Republicans.
“Max Miller is a wonderful person who did a great job at the White House and will be a fantastic congressman,” Trump, who will address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, on Sunday, said in a statement via his Save America political action committee. “Current Representative Anthony Gonzalez should not be representing the people of the 16th District because he does not represent their interest or their heart.”
Gonzalez, a second-term congressman and former Ohio State football player, is facing Republican criticism after saying Trump helped organize and incite the mob and “abandoned his post” while the Capitol was under attack on Jan. 6.
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