Rep. Peter Meijer (Mich.) was able to avoid a censure from Republicans in his home district on Monday following a deadlocked vote on a resolution to condemn the GOP congressman for voting to impeach former President Trump last month.
The 11-11 vote by the state Republican Party’s 3rd Congressional District Committee pitted Trump loyalists against Republicans condemning some representatives’ repeated unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, The Detroit News reported.
Meijer was one of 10 GOP lawmakers who joined all House Democrats last month in voting to impeach Trump, charging him with one article of inciting the deadly mob attack at the Capitol with his continued unsupported allegations of a “rigged” election in favor of President Biden.
Trump now faces an impeachment trial in the Senate this week, though a conviction is widely considered unlikely, as 17 Republicans would need to back the move in order to achieve the two-thirds support necessary to convict.
The Detroit News reported that Mike Hewitt, chairman of the district committee, said Meijer addressed the panel ahead of the vote Monday evening and that “it was a very civil exchange.”
“We voted. There’s not much to say beyond that. The math is the math,” Hewitt added.
He went on to say that “the congressman was very gracious in his time and his explanation of his position, and the members of the committee listened intently. We had a brief conversation after and a vote, and you know the results.”
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JUST IN: Michigan GOP committee deadlocks on resolution to censure Meijer over impeachment vote https://t.co/UZMcuXkgen pic.twitter.com/ped9w8e2Gw
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