Tom Rice

2022 - 6 - 15

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Trump celebrates toppling 'impeacher' Tom Rice in primaries and ... (Daily Mail)

Donald Trump celebrated toppling 'Impeacher,' Rep. Tom Rice, in Tuesday's South Carolina Republican primary, and boasted that every 'Trump candidate' won ...

'Nancy fights Republicans all the time and is not at all nice about it. a GREAT night!' he said of South Carolina state Rep. Russell Fry, who beat Rice in the GOP primary That didn't matter to the ex-president who backed Katie Arrington, despite the fact that she lost the district to a Democrat in the 2018 midterms. But Fry got the coveted endorsement of Trump in February, and the president appeared alongside Fry in a Florence, South Carolina rally in March. Trump-endorsed Republican hopeful Katie Arrington, a former South Carolina state rep, speaks with reporters outside a polling place Tuesday in Summerville, South Carolina. She's challenging Rep. Nancy Mace, who was critical of Trump after January 6 Former President Donald Trump's (right) embrace of Katie Arrington (left) still didn't help her unseat Rep. Nancy Mace, who was critical of the ex-president after January 6, but pressed to voters that they were politically aligned a GREAT night!' Rep. Nancy Mace speaks to reporters after beating challenger Katie Arrington on Tuesday. Mace was critical of former President Donald Trump after January 6, but campaigned by telling voters she was politically aligned with the ex-president South Carolina Rep. Russell Fry celebrates his win over U.S. Rep. Tom Rice for his congressional seat in the Republican primary after earning former President Donald Trump's endorsement An emotional Katie Arrington reacts after losing to incumbent Rep. Nancy Mace in Tuesday night's South Carolina for the 1st Congressional District House seat. Those two races were the most prominent as voters in South Carolina, Texas' 34th Congressional District, Nevada, Maine and North Dakota went to the polls Tuesday. - The two races were the most prominent as voters in South Carolina, Texas' 34th Congressional District, Nevada, Maine and North Dakota went to the polls

Tom Rice is first pro-impeachment Republican to lose to Trump ... (Business Insider)

Of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, four are retiring and another appears likely to advance to the general election.

Meanwhile in the Senate, just one of the seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, will face voters this year. In 2020, Alaska voted to enact top-four primaries where candidates of all parties run on the same primary ballot similar to California and Washington, ensuring that Murkowski won't face only Republican voters in her primary. Polling has also shown Cheney trailing Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman, and Trump garnered nearly 70% of the vote in Wyoming in 2020 — the highest margin of any state. All registered voters can vote in Washington's primary elections, allowing both candidates to potentially draw support from independents and Democrats. - Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington on August 2 - Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan on August 2

Rice goes down, Mace hangs on (The Washington Post)

In today's edition … Republican backers of the Senate gun violence deal seek to build support within GOP … Who paid Kimberly Guilfoyle's $60000 speaking fee ...

McLaughlin is a former Cornyn aide and a former executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. McLaughlin's involvement is a sign that leadership is working to convince their members to back the plan. Some Republicans continue to raise concerns about the red flag component of the bill. And as the country braces for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Support for red flag laws and a mandatory waiting period to purchase an AR-15-style gun also had support of 79 and 83 percent of respondents respectively — although those proposals aren't part of the Senate plan. McConnell's support is a significant boost to the proposal and senators allied with GOP leadership are gently laying out a case for supporting the deal. - Nevada's 4th District: Sam Peters was leading the Republican primary with 49 percent of the vote. Newhouse and Beutler are “both in better shape than the others because of Washington’s top-two primary system,” in which the two candidates who win the most votes advance to the primary regardless of party, Dave Wasserman, who analyses House races for the Cook Political Report, told the Early. - Nevada's 3rd District: April Becker won the Republican primary with 68 percent of the vote. Four of the Republicans who voted for impeachment chose not to run for reelection. - Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.): Newhouse represents a redder district than Herrera Beutler, but the challenger Trump endorsed — Loren Culp, who as the Republican nominee for governor in 2020refused to concededespite losing to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee by a wide margin — has reported dismal fundraising numbers. South Carolina Republicans redrew the district last year to make it harder for a Democrat to win. Mace led with 53 percent of the vote early this morning to Arrington's 45 percent.

Tom Rice: S.C. Republican Who Voted To Impeach Trump Loses ... (Forbes)

Rep. Tom Rice, who blamed Trump for the January 6 insurrection, was defeated in a landslide by Trump-backed Russell Fry.

Last month, Trump’s backing helped TV personality Mehmet Oz eke out a narrow victory against rival Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania's Senate primary race. In a race called by the Associated Press, Russell Fry—who was endorsed by Trump—held a massive 25-point lead over Rice, who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 riots and recently called him a “would-be tyrant.” A Trump-backed candidate defeated incumbent Rep. Tom Rice—one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach the former president last year—in the Republican party’s Congressional primaries in South Carolina while Rep. Nancy Mace, the state’s other Republican who broke with Trump, managed to stave off her primary challenger in a night of mixed results for candidates endorsed by the former president.

S.C. Rep. Tom Rice, Who Voted to Impeach Trump in Wake of Jan. 6 ... (PEOPLE.com)

Tom Rice was one of 10 Republicans who voted in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump following the Capitol riots.

Elsewhere in the state, some of Trump's most vocal allies succeeded, however. The Associated Press reports Rice lost his election to South Carolina state Rep. Russell Fry, who was endorsed by Trump. They didn't get distracted," Kemp told supporters after his win last month. Trump-endorsed candidates have seen mixed results in recent primary elections. Elsewhere in South Carolina, Rep. Nancy Mace — another Republican who voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the Capitol riots — won her election. S.C. Rep. Tom Rice, Who Voted to Impeach Trump in Wake of Jan. 6, Loses Reelection Bid After 5 Terms in Office

Republican who voted to impeach Trump defeated in South Carolina (Aljazeera.com)

Tom Rice, who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Capitol riot, has lost his re-election bid in South Carolina.

Rice and Mace each ran afoul of Trump after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, while Congress worked to certify the 2020 presidential election. A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday showed Biden’s public approval rating at 39 percent, in its third straight weekly decline, approaching the lowest level of his presidency. Trump had campaigned with Fry earlier this year in the 7th Congressional District, a Republican stronghold that includes the tourist hotspot of Myrtle Beach and a number of inland, rural areas.

Liz Cheney's future grows gloomier after Tom Rice's landslide loss (Washington Times)

Rep. Tom Rice's landslide loss in the South Carolina Republican primary could prove to be a bad omen for Rep. Liz Cheney's reelection push in Wyoming.

It is basically a prime-time campaign ad for people like Liz Cheney.” “ She can’t be effective for Wyoming any more.” He voted the way he did on impeachment, but he had not been overly antagonizing toward Trump in the way Liz Cheney has been. “It is all a game. Mr. Rice, a five-term member of Congress, was clobbered. Four others decided to call it quits rather than face voters again. Tim Murtaugh, an adviser to the Hageman campaign and former Trump spokesperson, said voters in Wyoming are “fed up with Liz Cheney.” “President Trump‘s advisers knew what he was saying was false and they told him so directly and repeatedly,” Ms. Cheney said in a video posted after one of the panel’s recent hearings. Cheney‘s position is more similar to Rice’s than to Mace’s,” said James D. King, a political science professor at the University of Wyoming. “The bottom line is that it appears Cheney‘s chances for renomination have reduced.” Mr. Rice and Ms. Cheney were among the 10 Republican House members who voted last year to impeach President Trump, and Mr. Rice is the first to fall in a primary. Still, it turns out it didn’t matter.” “She just strikes me as someone who is ripe to fall and with the Tom Rice situation in South Carolina, I see a lot of parallels,” said John Couvillon, founder of JMC Analytics and Polling. “Congressman Rice was more low-key in his approach.