6’s) attack on Congress by mob rioters”? They only remember the impeachment votes.įor a moment there, in the days after the Capitol breach, it seemed safe, maybe even smart, for a Republican to condemn Trump’s behavior. A year later, who remembers that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, whose district nuzzles against Valadao’s, said at the time “the president bears responsibility for (Jan. For Republicans, there is no getting past his egregious lapse in loyalty. While Democrats called Valadao’s impeachment vote courageous, there’s no chance they’re crossing party lines to give him their vote. “This could end up being the greatest challenge to congressional Republicans regaining their majorities.” “Those angry Trump supporters aren’t going to vote for a Democrat in November, but it’s entirely possible that they simply don’t vote at all,” said GOP political consultant Dan Schnur. On the nation’s political map, the backlash in California’s cattle country could also cost the GOP a precious seat as Republicans hope to flip the Democrat-controlled House during the November midterm elections. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)įor Valadao, vilification over the vote - and a redrawn congressional district that cuts out some of his conservative base and adds more Democratic voters - has left him in a political no man’s land. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2021. Representative David Valadao (R-CA) participates in a press conference with Republican members of the House of Representatives about immigration reform at the U.S. John Katko of New York - announced Friday he too was done with Congress. That decision put the 44-year-old dairy farmer and the other reviled Republicans in the crosshairs of Trump himself, who gloated after two of them announced last fall they would not seek re-election: “2 down, 8 to go!” Indeed, a third - Rep. Valadao was one of just 10 Republican House members - and the only one in California - who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection. 13, 2021, when, as local mechanic Joe Flower puts it, the local congressman “not only stabbed the president but stabbed us all in the back.” But in Valadao’s hometown of Hanford, they point to Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)Ī year after President Donald Trump was impeached for a historic second time, few places better illustrate America’s lost middle ground. David Valadao after the Republican congressman voted to impeach former President Trump in 2021. HANFORD, CA – January 10: Kings Gun and Archery Center owner Todd Cotta shows a text exchange from a year ago with U.S.
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