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In anearlier interview with NPR, Rice acknowledged that voting in favor of impeaching Trump could cost him his job.
“If we are going to have a scenario where the president can try to intimidate Congress into doing what he wants, well shoot, we might as well have a monarchy,” Rice told the outlet in February.
Trump, meanwhile, lambasted the congressman for his vote to impeach, calling him a “coward,” according to NPR.
“And I guess if the consequences are that the people think what happened is OK, then I guess, you know, I’m not that guy,” Rice told NPR.
Elsewhere in South Carolina, Rep. Nancy Mace — another Republican who voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the Capitol riots —won her election.
Mace, who initially supported Trump after his first run for the presidency, staunchly criticized him in the wake of the Capitol riots.
Trump-endorsed candidates have seen mixed results in recent primary elections. In three high-profile races in Georgia, for instance, contenders who refused to help Trump overturn Georgia’s election results in 2020 easily won.
“Even in the middle of a tough primary, conservatives across our state didn’t listen to the noise. They didn’t get distracted,” Kemp told supporters after his win last month.
Also in Georgia, the state’s Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger, whose phone call with Trump in Jan. 2021 showed the lengths the president was willing to go for reelection,won 52 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff with his closest competitor.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr — who backed Kemp and Raffensperger’s decision to certify the results of the 2020 election after investigations found there was no evidence of fraud — also coasted to victory in his Republican primary, with nearly 74 percent of the vote.
Elsewhere in the state, some of Trump’s most vocal allies succeeded, however. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for instance,won the Republican primaryin her Georgia district, putting her on the path to be reelected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
source: people.com
