President Donald Trump’s son said he'll travel to Michigan to campaign against Rep. Justin Amash, the only Republican to support impeachment efforts against the president.
“See you soon Justin... I hear Michigan is beautiful during primary season,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter early June 13.
He was responding to a new poll from Practical Political Consulting showing Jim Lower at 49 percent against Amash’s 33 percent.
Amash has claimed recently that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report showed Trump committed “actions [that] were inherently corrupt.”
“Other actions were corrupt—and therefore impeachable—because the president took them to serve his own interests,” he wrote in a missive on Twitter.
Some Democrats have threatened to try to impeach Trump but the party’s current leader, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), has avoided triggering proceedings because of tepid support from her caucus as a whole.
Lower, a state representative, described himself as “pro-Trump” and slammed Amash’s call for impeachment.
Lower has been in office for two terms. Amash was elected in 2010 and re-elected three times; he did not have a Republican challenger in either of the last two elections. In 2018, he beat the Democratic candidate with 54 percent of the vote.
“You rest safe in the knowledge … that [Trump] won’t be removed from office. So you get to make the political grandstanding that raises your national profile,” she told Amash. “You are now a national household name. That’s called political capital. And you are hoping to launch your star bigger and brighter than District 3.”
“You just talked about how you did better in District 3 than Trump. Do you want to talk about how the last election you got the least amount of support that you’ve ever had because you haven’t supported the MAGA agenda?” she added.
He said he informed the caucus at a board meeting that he would be leaving.
