Meijer condemns Democrats for 'harmful technique' of boosting Trump-backed rival

Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) slammed the Democratic Celebration's "harmful technique" of boosting his major challenger John Gibbs, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, to victory.

Meijer expressed his frustration over the cash spent by Democrats in his major but additionally took accountability for his loss whereas talking with Margaret Brennan on CBS News's Face the Nation on Sunday. The Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee boosted Gibbs with a $435,000 advert purchase forward of the first.

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"I misplaced my major, and that's on me. I take accountability for that," Meijer mentioned. "Nevertheless it's essential to notice that it wasn't simply former President Trump who was on this race. There was a few half million dollars that the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee, of their first expenditures of the 2022 midterms, dumped in to assist enhance him."

The congressman warned Democrats that pumping cash into his challenger's marketing campaign could backfire if Gibbs, who has denied the outcomes of the 2020 election, wins in November.

"Whereas I believe there was actually a cynical calculus at play with the Democrats meddling, this can be a dangerous technique. It is a harmful technique. The place President Biden is in his approval is so within the gutter, that it's onerous to see that technique — it's simple to see that technique backfiring in a spectacular method, which is all of the extra motive why we shouldn't be embracing the zero-sum concept of politics," Meijer mentioned. "We shouldn't be embracing this notion that if we will maintain an issue alive, maintain it festering, however be capable of acquire a marginal benefit within the course of, that that one way or the other equates to a victory."

Meijer misplaced to Gibbs within the Republican major for Michigan’s third Congressional District final week by greater than 3 proportion factors. The primary-term congressman was considered one of 10 Republicans to vote for Trump's second impeachment in connection to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.