GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump last year for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, won his primary in Washington, NBC News projects.
Newhouse emerged from Tuesday’s primary in Washington’s 4th congressional district, defeating Republican challenger Loren Culp, a Trump-backed candidate.
The four-term incumbent will face Democrat Doug White, who is also advancing NBC News projects, in the district deemed solidly Republican this fall. Under Washington State’s open, nonpartisan primary system, the top two candidates, regardless of party, qualify for the November election.
Newhouse and nine other House Republicans voted to impeach Trump in January 2021, accusing him of “inciting insurrection” for his role in violently rioting a crowd of his supporters. It was the most bipartisan vote on a presidential impeachment in history, doubling the five Democrats who voted to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998.
Like other impeachment supporters, Newhouse had outstripped his Trump-backed opponent’s fundraising. It grossed around $1.6 million, while Culp had raised $310,000 through mid-July.
Reps. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., and Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., two others who voted to impeach the former president, also took on major Trump-backed challengers on Tuesday in contests that scored a test. of Trump’s influence in GOP elections. Meijer was beaten by John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official.
Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the highest-ranking Republican to support impeachment and vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, faces her primary on Aug. 16.
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