Pro-Trump Michigan state lawmaker announces primary challenge to Rep. Justin Amash.
U.S. Rep. Justin Amash's decision to break with the Republican Party has prompted Michigan state Rep. Jim Lower to launch a primary challenge against him in 2020.
"I want to work with the president, I want to work with other Republicans both in the House and Senate and actually get things done for our state and for our country," he continued. "He's one of only four Republicans to vote against a balanced budget, one of only eight to vote against supplying Israel with aide, voted against cutting funding to Planned Parenthood," he said of Amash's record."Pretty much the only Republican to vote against a resolution supporting ICE. Only Republican to vote for allowing illegal immigrants to vote in local elections. Bottom line is, he hasn't been effective.
Lower's entrance tees up a tough re-election fight for Amash who was first elected to the seat in 2010, when he rode the tea party wave as a conservative star. He hasn't faced a primary challenge since 2014 when he beat Brian Ellis, a businessman from Grand Rapids, Michigan by nearly 15 percentage points.
"America's institutions depend on officials to uphold both the rules and spirit of our constitutional system even when to do so is personally inconvenient or yields a politically unfavorable outcome," he wrote.
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