Michigan GOP Challenger Wins US House Primary Over Incumbent Who Voted to Impeach Trump
BYRON CENTER, Mich.—Republican John Gibbs defeated incumbent Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) in Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District primary on Aug. 2.
Meijer was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. Trump endorsed Gibbs for the GOP nomination.
With 75 percent of the votes reported at 12:24 a.m. on Aug. 3, Gibbs received almost 52 percent of the vote while Meijer registered 48 percent, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Gibbs will face Democrat Hillary Scholten in November’s general election in a redrawn 3rd District that once favored Republicans, but is now friendlier to Democrats. Scholten ran unopposed.
Gibbs was a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official during the Trump administration. He was appointed by Trump to lead the Office of Personnel Management but wasn’t confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Gibbs grew up in the Lansing area, and didn’t live in western Michigan until last year.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Stanford University and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University, served as a missionary in Japan, and worked in Silicon Valley as a software engineer before his role at HUD.
Meijer graduated from Columbia University and is the son of Hank Meijer, the executive chairman of the family-owned Meijer grocery chain. He served in the Army Reserves from 2008 to 2016, including a one-year deployment to Iraq.
Meijer voted to impeach Trump three days after the freshman legislator was sworn into the 117th Congress.
On Aug. 1, in a column that appeared on the Substack page Common Sense, Meijer criticized the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for intervening by spending $435,000 in advertising to bolster Gibbs.
While the spot appeared to attack Gibbs, it also provided airtime for a campaign that didn’t have the funds to increase its name
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