'Why this ex-House Republican who voted to impeach Trump is 'changing his tune' on 2024

21 November 2023

After the January 6, 2021 insurrection, former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Michigan) was among the minority of House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump — a vote that infuriated Trump's loyalists in the MAGA movement.

Meijer, during a January 2023 interview, told Politico's Adam Wren that he couldn't imagine voting for Trump in the 2024 presidential election. But the GOP congressman is now seeking the GOP nomination in Michigan's 2024 U.S. Senate race — and he is "changing his tune," according to Wren.

Wren, describing a November 2023 interview with Meijer, reports that he "said he'll now support whomever the 2024 GOP nominee is, amid little doubt it's likely to be Trump."

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Meijer told Wren, "It's something that I've grappled with. I think (former U.S. Attorney General) Bill Barr's response has been, 'I'll jump off that bridge when it comes to it.' I would say one of the things that's really changed between then and now is my frustration at the cynical calculation that I've seen on the Democratic side…. I don't think it's a controversial thing to say that the Democrats have kind of salivated — or at least this was the case going back towards the middle of this year before Biden's poll numbers imploded — they were salivating at the prospect of a Biden versus Trump rematch, thinking that given the president's weaknesses, his strongest chance of reelection was against Donald Trump…. My overarching goal is to make Joe Biden a one-term president."

Meijer is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), who decided not to seek reelection. In October, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) endorsed a Democrat in that race: Rep. Elissa Slotkin. And while Meijer is rationalizing his reasons for supporting Trump if he becomes the nominee, Cheney remains adamantly anti-Trump and said of her Slotkin endorsement, "If we want to ensure the survival of our republic, we have to walk away from politics as usual. We have to stand up, every one of us, and say we're going to do what's right for this country. We're going to look beyond partisan politics."

Read Politico's full interview with former Rep. Peter Meijer at this link.

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