After exhibiting a congressional perspective in line with democrats, and then voting to authorize the J6 committee along with President Trump’s impeachment, Michigan representative Pete Meijer lost his primary reelection bid to John Gibbs.
The CBS crew quickly contacted Meijer to provide him the opportunity to belittle the base of the republican party that rejected him from office. Silver spooner Pete Meijer was more than happy to accommodate the request and appears with Margaret Brennan. [Transcript Link] – WATCH:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer is one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump following the attack on the Capitol. Last Tuesday, he lost his primary race against a Trump-endorsed challenger. Congressman Meijer is with us this morning from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Good morning to Congressman. The person who won that primary is an election denier named John Gibbs, and he is backed by former President Trump. Why do you think Michigan Republicans favored him?
REP. PETER MEIJER: Well good morning, Margaret. And as you said, I lost my primary and that is on me. I take responsibility for that. But it’s important to note that it wasn’t just former President Trump, who was in this race, there was about a half million dollars that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in their first expenditures of the 2022 midterms dumped in to help boost him.
So, we had a scenario where not only did I have the former president aligned against me, but in a rare showing of bipartisan unity, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic Campaign Committee, also united to try to knock me off the ballot. Now, this just highlights the cynicism and hypocrisy of our politics today. And frankly, it’ll be unknowable what that ultimate impact was, but the fact that we have the establishment left and the extreme right locking arms in common cause paints a very telling picture of where our politics are in 2022.
MARGARET BRENNAN” Right, what you’re talking about there is an ad that the Democratic Congressional committee campaigns spent $325,000 on to boost Mr. Gibbs, which was almost as much as Gibbs spent on his entire campaign. That’s what you’re referring to, that’s what our viewers are looking at right there. But do you think that ad really made a difference? I mean Democrats aren’t voting in this primary, it’s Republicans, why did Michigan Republicans fall for this ad?
REP. MEIJER: Well, you know, I think there is a clear question of agency here, of course, and at the end of the day, Republican voters are going to cast their votes as they see fit. I should note that this ad was not aimed at- was not playing on MSNBC, it was not playing in places where Democratic voters might see it, it was targeted in places to try to sway and convince Republican primary voters to try to give my primary challenger a boost up and over.
And I should add that my defeat was by roughly 3%, out of over 100,000 votes cast, we lost by less than 4,000 votes, and I think that’s important to remember, when you have very close elections like this. And obviously competing against very strong headwinds, having a Trump-endorsed challenger in a party where President Trump still holds over 75% approval. That a message of focusing on the substance of what I’ve been able to accomplish in office. I’m proud that our office is on track to set a record for the most number of bills signed into law by a freshman, that those type of accomplishments get lost in our current personality politics, get lost in a broader sense. And I think that is one of the fundamental challenges that we have as a country, and that is, frankly, frustrating Michigan families. We are dealing with a politics that does not reward substance that does not reward, you know, reality.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But does that mean–
REP. MEIJER: That focuses on rhetoric and personality above all else.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you think Democrats are going to get what they paid for here? Right? I mean, they’re betting that would be easier to defeat. Mr. Gibbs than you. Is your district going to go to a Democrat?
REP. MEIJER: It’s important to note, this is a district that President Biden won in 2020 by roughly nine points, I was one of five Republicans running for reelection in seats where the- where President Biden won in the 2020 elections by eight or more points. And so while I think there was certainly a cynical calculus at play with the Democrats meddling, this is a risky strategy. It’s a dangerous strategy.
Where President Biden is in his approval is so in the gutter, that it is hard to see that strategy- it is easy to see that strategy backfiring in a spectacular way, which is all the more reason why we should not be embracing the zero-sum idea of politics. We should not be embracing this- this notion that if we can keep a problem alive, keep it festering, but be able to gain a marginal advantage in the process, that that somehow equates to a victory. I think it’s a dark and cynical way of viewing our politics, that frankly, 48% of the electorate in the primary here rejected. They stood against that cynicism that they were focused on somebody who was working to deliver results.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Your Republican colleague Liz Cheney is about to face a primary August the 16th in her state, former Vice President Dick Cheney, her father, released this video.
Former VP Dick Cheney (SOT): “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election and he lost big. I know it. He knows it. And deep down I think most Republicans know it.”
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is Mr. Cheney right there because 57% of Republicans told CBS News, they’re more likely to vote for a candidate who gets an endorsement from the former president. Is the former president, the leader of the Republican Party or the biggest threat to our nation’s Republic?
REP. MEIJER: Well, I certainly think that President Trump wants to keep those numbers up. He wants that degree of influence, and I mentioned earlier the common cause between the extremes on the right, and the establishment left. Nancy Pelosi, I think she’s waking up every day crossing her fingers that Donald Trump runs in 2024, that he announces well ahead of the midterms, because right now, the midterms are set to be a referendum on President Biden’s leadership and Speaker Pelosi and many of my house Democratic colleagues do not want that. They want it to be a referendum on former President Trump and I think former President Trump wants that as well.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, we will be watching that primary. And Congressman, thank you for joining us today. We’ll be right back. (read more)
Dems spent money to promote Gibbs but encouraged Dems to vote for Meijer in the primary. Huh?
I believe it was an attempt to brush blue tint Gibbs making Republicans think he was the RINO and not Meijer. the Dems are desperate and it only cost them $325,000. But now they know Republican voters will not fall for that junk.
Take a look at the ad, below.
It paints Gibbs as “too MAGA”. It’s actually a good ad!
You know what cracks me up to no end sunnydaze? When they demonize “MAGA” What in Gods name is so demonizing about Making America Great Again? It’s not one of their tricky little cute names of these leftist communist orgs. like the ACLU or those Soros named entities that sound great but are really duping people with the cute name. MAGA is just MAGE. And now they try even harder to demonize it by saying “ULTRA MAGA” At least they make me laugh at their stupid. If they didn’t have all of the cards in their hand media and such they wouldn’t stand a chance of being elected dog catcher. They have NO policies to put forward for Americans, only for retaining power to them!
So right you are Bob. They think we’re stupid. LOL I always say stupid people don’t know they’re stupid. (democrats) I also say you don’t get fat by being energetic. (example) Nadler!Or as Trump would say “fat Jerry”
Right. The interviewer got it wrong. We have open primaries in MI. If Dems weren’t voting for Meijer he would have lost by a much bigger margin. The ads paid for by the Dems had no impact. But oh the irony… as Meijer is actually a Democrat if you look at his history and he consistently voted with the Democrats.
Meijers grocery stores are really a great place to shop. For now we are treating Peter as an aberration the family puts up with. We have canceled Walmart and would hate to Cancel Meijers.
Agree on all points.
See above. The Meijer family is anti- MAGA.
only shop at small grocery stores – no big box stores such as Walmart and Target.
Would shop at Woodlands if there was one near me – Meijers, never!
I’m working near Royal Oak, lived there back in the early early 70’s as a kid, rediscovered Hollywood Market, like going back in time, they of course modernized, but it still has that 70’s vibe, very cool. My main go to store is a little market around the corner, in Plymouth, great butcher shop and prices are only a touch higher than the other guys. Like my small mom and pop markets.
They are atheistic human garbage.
He is a typical third generation rich kid. Great Grandpa Hendrik and Grandpa Fred made the money by being smart businessmen. His father Hank washed out as a journalist and went into the family business. Peter washed out at West Point and transferred to Ivy League Columbia where he majored in the ever-so-useful subject Cultural Anthropology. He has worked with NGOs and was an “intelligence analyst” before entering politics. Maybe now he will have to get a real job.
Um, you may want to do a little more research. The Meijer’s family is on the globalist train and they HATED President Trump and the MAGA movement and they also push the LGBTQ+ perversions on kids. During “pride” month they had childrens books and childrens clothing advocating the LGBTQ agenda. The book display was quite disgusting. I only shop there when I must, otherwise I shop at the IGA grocery stores in my area.
Somebody call this former Congressman a waaaambulance!
What a dick!
Don’t give Dicks a bad name by this comparison. They can be amazing.
That itself is true, but if referring to him as a “dick” as in Chenney then all is good, and real dicks get the respect back.
YAY!! Another one bites the dust.
The Republican party RINOs are deluded into thinking they’re relevant.
Bye Felicia!
Now I get it………. the shopping cart guy. Quite fitting.
Born with a silver shopping cart in his mouth, and probably never pushed one for work.
So, you lost by around 4,000 votes. Even if you lost by 1 vote, it’s still a loss. There’s an old saying, an inch is as good as a mile!
Go home, and have a good cry in a beer!
to me its sad he got any votes… clearly an idiot
“Why do you think Michigan Republicans favored him?”
I can tell you, I can tell you, Margie!
Because he wasn’t a lying scum-bag RINO election fraud denier like the guy who lost.
LOL perfect!
He got shamed and divorced. Typical ex.
Not this scumbag’s fault he lost. Nope, not at all.
The dems won’t want him. He’s just a pawn.
Meijer lost this election two years ago when he outed himself as the Democrat’s buttboy. He back stabbed his voters three days after getting elected and then spent the next two years ghosting this district. He made us start to look fondly back at the Justin Amash days. There was no way in hell that he was going to get re-elected if he survived the primary. He is delusional if he thinks the Democrats pushed Gibbs over the top. If local media hadn’t given him free promotion, and the Dems hadn’t likely crossed over to vote for him in the open primary, he probably would have gotten destroyed by an even bigger number. Meijer was less visible than Sasquatch and Gibbs was at every possible function in the district over the past six months.
He worked for Dr Ben, that was enough for me.
And then president trump endorsed him………
Yes, there were democrats pulling for meijers and cheating.
He is a grease smear on the road to our redemption
Take a look at the Wikipedia article on John Gibbs and see what the wokists have done to it. Flabbergasting!
Horrible…..I had to stop reading.
I make a certain point of sending an email comment or a post regarding these absurd, pejorative-laden screeds, masquerading as “journalism”.
I ask for their journalism degree, mentioning that they have shamed their Alma mater with such poor quality garbage, and say I’m going to ask their school to revoke their diploma.
Honestly, it’s SUCH BAD “journalism” that it shouldn’t exist. At all.
Makes them mad. Temper tantrum mad. Inferior skills and even more inferior execution.
Wikipedia is like Pravda. No truth whatsoever. Go on Ebay and do a search for Encyclopedia Britannica. You can find the entire set on dvd for less than $10. A real encyclopedia. So what if is ten years old, it will be relevant for most inquiries and was written at a time where there was no political agenda. Wikipedia is garbage in disguise.
What a FOOL!!!
“Rule or Ruin,” go ahead and try to ruin boy:
The count ordered his carriage that he might drive to Sokólniki, and sat in his study with folded hands, morose, sallow, and taciturn.
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
Marxist RINO sorry loser. Go suck your golden thumb. Try running as a democrat and show your true colors.
For having a net value of $16.5B in the family this has to hurt.
Happens a lot with 3rd generation wealth. A lot. Spoiled brat, trust-fund baby.
Wakeup call for Li’l Meijer: The “establishment left and the extreme right locking arms” is vapor. The ever-brilliant Dem strategists thought that maggot voters would not prefer overtly MAGA candidates to smiley-faced woke progressive slimeballs. The Dem strategists apparently were wrong … again.
Obviously Meijer only lost because of racism, sexism and heterophobia 🙄
Pete, go back to chasing buggies at your family’s grocery store.
Meijer should apply for a job at the FBI as lead Antifa recruiter or maybe even as a director of the manufactured crisis division. I see right through that punk.
“I’m proud that our office is on track to set a record for the most number of bills signed into law by a freshman”
Dude, it’s not about quantity, it’s about quality. Idiot.
He seems surprised that after all that voting for DIM b.s. the DIMs turned right around and bit him. Cue ‘The Snake‘.
He should really watch more TRUMP Rallies.
Clearly the youg feller isn’t familiar with Thomas Paine:
“That government is best which governs least.”
The narrative by the local and national media shows that they have no clue as to why John Gibbs actually won.
He is a most impressive candidate. I’m trying to get him to add a non-Winred donation platform so I can give money. I REFUSE to use the lying, grifting, greedy Winred for ANY donation.
Missy, I trusted REVV. Mr. Trump used them for donations for his first term.
Does anyone know if we are still able to send donations to Trump Tower?
Joe Kent 6:42 PM · Aug 5, 2022:
“Update- as of tonight we are 257 votes away from JHB with 30k votes left to count.
Counting will continue tomorrow”. …
Update: That was two days ago
The counters do not work weekends.
The vote changers, ballot swappers definitely enjoy weekends.
But thank you for sharing the counters information.
I guess Mr. Kent didnt know that either.
biting my tongue again.
Was curious about that too.
Meijer was a brand new rep in 2020, he is in his first (and apparently only) term. He’s not important enough to be on Face the Nation. Nobody can name a single thing this guy did except vote to impeach Trump, and yet he talks about his “accomplishments”. lol
Caius, you are out “clevering” yourself.
This was too frenetic for me!
Of course, neither Meijer (heir to multi-million dollar Meijers stores family) or his Leftist news enabler acknowledges that he and a Democrat group from Denver ran despicable, defamatory, racist ads against Gibbs that disgusted Republicans here in West Michigan, who also elected a group of reform minded Republicans over other “Republicans” who actively urged Democrat interference in our Republican primary.<p>
Pot calling kettle? RINO Gaslighting? White Privilege? Take your pick – you can’t lose!
Waaa Waaa Sore loser.
The democrats dumped in money to help Gibbs? BWAAAAAA!
The Dems paid for an ad attacking Gibbs. lol
dick cheney says that “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” one does not have to go far afield to such as king george lll, kaiser wilhelm, general tojo, adolph hitler, or joseph stalin to find someone who is a greater threat to our republic than donald trump.
dick cheney sees him every time he shaves.
Was Cheney even alive during that ad??? He looked like a ventriloquist’s dummy.
How can Brennan’s description as “election denier named John Gibbs” be thought of as “journalism”??
It’s NOT.
Got as far as “The person who won that primary is an election denier named…”
That’s why we always consider the source.
What else could one expect from (D)eface The Nation ?
Bless his little heart.
They just don’t get it, and never will.
https://spectator.org/to-dick-cheney-and-his-ilk-its-not-about-trump/
I think painting the Trump-backed candidates as extremem and unelectable and supported by Dem money because they know they will be easier for the Dems to knock off in November is part of the narrative-building for the expected election fraud. Paint him as an extreme Trumper who people will reject, show poles with the race tight, then manufacture a win in a “too close to call” race. Just a story that the media and the controlled assets… er, I mean “candidates” spin.
I think you’re pretty accurate in that assessment. Just in today’s Inbox, I received emails with 5 variations of a story about how “Democrats are beginning to regain the public’s trust”, or something along those lines, and in the body of each email was a paragraph or more about the increasing polling succeses of democratic party candidates recently. I didn’t believe one word, but I DID read between the lines… They’re trying to gaslight the populace into believing the Dems have more than the slightest chance of re-election, but guess what, cupcakes? Not a chance in the hot place; it ain’t happening unless we see a repeat of 2020. They really do believe that we’re all stupid, don’t they??
“You f7ck with the bull, you get the horns.”
Here’s the ad the Dems ran “against” John Gibbs.
I think it’s pretty good!
Too conservative? That’s my kinda guy!
What a spectacular own goal by the DCCC.
Excuse me? “Too conservative for West Michigan?” Obviously written by someone who has never, ever BEEN to West Michigan! White, Conservative, Christian, Dutch, OMG! Maybe the DCCC should have at least looked at the phone book! I grew up there. No such thing as “too conservative for West Michigan.” I have relatives in Ann Arbor (Moscow on the Huron) who won’t even go to the beach in West Michigan because the residents are too conservative.
“Election denier.”
Whoop dee doo. These idiots have come up with another stupid term. They looked at the term climate deniers and said, “why don’t we try this here too?”
I watched that commercial with Cheney. He lied there, he knows it, I know it, and I imagine most of this audience knows it. He is dead to me, as is his daughter. I will be very glad when she loses her primary. I would not shake either of their hands. I used to respect Cheney. Now I hold in in utter contempt.
I consider the man a mass murderer, shake his hand 🤔.
I’d do a lot more than that. Dicks gonna burn in hell ! His time is short .
I have a theory or maybe it is more than a theory. Never trust a Republican who hangs around Washington for more than two terms. In Cheney’s case, he was not an elected official at least I think not in later years but he hung around. My idea of Republican is a person who had a real job but wanted to do some good so they ran for congress and if successful, did the best they could and maybe won a second term and then went home. When I moved to NH in 1979, they had a US house rep who was a Republican and finishing his second term. He had been an airline pilot before his election. While in office, he had always given back any money his office had not spent at end of budget year. He retired after two terms. Great guy. What a novelty. Wish I could remember his name.
lol the Uniparty didnt allocate enough mules for Meijers installation.
But They Promised! Wahhhh!
Meijer Didnt Win, We All Know That
“… there was about a half million dollars that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in their first expenditures of the 2022 midterms dumped in to help boost him.” As we say here in flyover country, what a pantload. Yeah, when your party is on the ropes spending money to boost a vocifierous critic into office is definitely the way to go. Calling this guy a weasel is an insult to weasels.
Republican RINOs are not better than Democrats.
Now there is a perfect example of leftist RINO losers being routed out by a legitimate election !
Note his measure of success is how many laws he was instrumental in passing . My Bet is it’s more leftist tyrannical control due to their continuous total failure !
Stupid question from me… was there a vote to impeach Trump because of Jan 6th – since he was already heading out of office? That was the first thing she said in the intro.
Fake news… Revisionist news… whatever it is – it’s terrible.
I coudn’t finish the article. When he starting whining about the Trump supporter of Gibbs AND the democrat money pouring in against him gave me a “poor me” feeling. Like I’m supposed tofeel sorry for a person who is a Rino and sold out to the left by voting to impeach the President.
This is what happens to Rinos when they side with the left. The left will kick you to the side as soon as they get a chance. They’re nothing but fodder against real Americans who love the country. The democrats poured money into Gibbs thinking that he doesn’t stand a chance against their money going to his opponent. Well all I can say is good! Example, Kari Lake! But most of allour great President Trump who was outspent during the primaries in 16 and won big! Most sane thining people can see through the mush now thanks to Trump. And those who run on a MAGA platform will win! No matter how much money they throw at them.
Whitmer and many other D candidates were unopposed in the Michigan D primary. It was actually striking, as I looked at my ballot. Obviously, this was intentional, to promote crossover voting in the R primary. That’s what this Meijer guy was working for, and the ad cash was Uniparty for sure, to speak to crossovers.
They really intend to destroy us, as McConnell said.
He should try a job as a bagger or night stocker at his supermarket chain.
He’s such a man of principle that he waited until AFTER he lost his primary to bash Trump because before he was courting Trumpers.