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Poll: Justin Amash Trails Primary Challenger by Double
Digits After Impeachment Call
June 12, 2019
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), the first Republican on Capitol
Hill to call for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, trails
primary challenger State Rep. Jim Lower by a sizeable margin, according to a
poll released Tuesday.
A Practical Political Consulting/MIRS poll shows Amash
(33 percent) behind Lower (49 percent) by 16 percent. The poll was conducted
between June 5th-9th and served 360 likely Republican voters. Amash’s other
primary challenger, Army National Guardsman Tim Norton, was not included in the
poll.
2020 #MI03 Republican Primary:— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) June 12, 2019
Jim Lower 49% (+16)
Justin Amash 33%
Practical Political Consulting 6/5-9https://t.co/WCurOJYdDO
The poll comes amid a Politico report
stating President Trump has discussed the possibility of backing an Amash
primary challenger with Vice President Mike Pence, Rep. Mark Meadows
(R-NC), and Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
However, no firm decision has been made on the matter.
The Michigan Republican shocked the Beltway when he accused President
Trump of committing “impeachable” offenses stemming from special counsel Robert
Mueller’s Russia report and claimed Attorney General William Barr
misrepresented the special counsel’s key findings. Team Mueller found no
criminal conspiracy occurred between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, and
shortly after, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined that
the president did not commit obstruction of justice during the sweeping
investigation.
President Trump and top Republicans blasted Amash over his remarks,
accusing him of being an attention-seeker with an unimpressive legislative
track record to show for his four terms in Congress. “Never a fan of @justinamash,
a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and
policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy,”
the president tweeted last
month. “If he actually read the biased Mueller Report, ‘composed’ by 18 Angry
Dems who hated Trump, he would see that it was nevertheless strong on NO
COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION.”
“Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents
[sic] hands!” he concluded.
On Monday evening, Amash resigned from the House Freedom
Caucus, the conservative congressional group he helped start in 2015, after 30
of his now-former peers voted to condemn his remarks on impeachment.
“I have the highest regard for them and they’re my close
friends,” he told CNN
of the decision to leave. “I didn’t want to be a further distraction for the
group.”
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