None of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump will be in the next Congress
None of the House Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will be in Congress after this year, following Tuesday’s midterm elections. The last Republicans still in the House are outgoing Rep. David Valadao (Calif.), who was defeated by Democrat Randy Villegas on Tuesday, and Rep.…
None of the House Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will be in Congress after this year, following Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The last Republicans still in the House are outgoing Rep. David Valadao (Calif.), who was defeated by Democrat Randy Villegas on Tuesday, and Rep. Dan Newhouse (Wash.), who is retiring.
Valadao and Newhouse were among the 10 House Republicans who crossed the aisle to impeach Trump following the Capitol attack. Former GOP Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) were the only two to serve on the House Select Committee on Jan. 6, which infuriated Republicans and drew Trump’s ire.
In 2022, eight of the 10 either chose to not run for reelection or lost in the GOP primaries, including Cheney who lost to Trump-backed Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.). At the time, Trump had endorsed a number of candidates in GOP primary battles in an effort to unseat Republicans who he believed crossed him following the 2020 election and Capitol attack.
Here’s a list of the 10 former House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump:
Cheney lost to Hageman in the primaries despite being a part of the Cheney political dynasty. She was a vocal critic of Trump and served as vice chair of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6.
Hageman recently ascended to Wyoming’s open Senate seat in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Cheney vowed she would do whatever she could to make sure Trump did not return anywhere near the White House after his first term.
The former Wyoming representative has since continued to advocate for traditional conservative causes while blasting Trump — even campaigning for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race.
Former Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio) announced he would not be seeking another term in the House months after he voted to impeach Trump.
In the 2022 midterm elections, Trump instead endorsed Rep. Max Miller (R) in the race to lead Ohio’s 7th Congressional District.
Miller recently lost to Democratic opponent Brian Poindexter in Tuesday’s midterms.
Gonzalez’s impeachment vote particularly enraged the Ohio Republican Party, whose leaders censured him and called for his resignation in May 2021.
Gonzalez, a former professional football player, finished off his time in the House by voting in favor of establishing the independent commission on Jan. 6 and even supported holding Steve Bannon in contempt for refusing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 investigative panel.
Former Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.) lost in a crowded primary to Trump-backed Republican Joe Kent in 2022 following her support for Trump’s impeachment. Herrera Beutler was condemned by Washington state’s Republican Party at the time for her impeachment vote.
Kent eventually lost to Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D) in the race to lead Washington’s 3rd Congressional District. On Tuesday, Gluesenkamp Perez defeated her Republican challenger in the midterms, retaining her 3rd District seat.
Former Rep. John Katko (N.Y.) announced his retirement close to one year after he voted to impeach Trump. He also planned to step down as chair of the Republican Governance Group, a caucus of moderate House Republicans he’d led since 2017.
Katko joined the HillEast Group, a Washington-based lobbying and communications firm, in January 2023 as a senior adviser. The firm was hired by the NHL to lobby on issues related to league event security.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R) succeeded Katko in leading New York’s 24th Congressional District. She earned Trump’s endorsement in the 2026 midterms and defended her seat in an election cycle that saw the GOP losing in competitive elections, particularly in red strongholds.
Kinzinger was among the members of this group to receive the most backlash for his impeachment vote and his subsequent tenure of the House panel investigating Jan. 6.
He announced his retirement in October 2021, following a redistricting effort that would have pitted him against Trump-backed Rep. Darin LaHood (R).
LaHood won reelection Tuesday in the race to represent Illinois’s 16th Congressional District.
Since his departure from the House, Kinzinger has been a vocal critic of Trump and said he saw “ failure after failure ” when looking at the president’s first 100 days back in office in 2025.
Former Rep. Peter Meijer (Mich.) lost in the primaries to Trump-backed Republican John Gibbs in 2022.
At the time, Meijer and Kinzinger condemned the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for running an ad they said boosted Gibbs, who supported Trump’s unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Gibbs ultimately lost to Democratic challenger Rep. Hillary Scholten to lead Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District. Scholten easily won reelection in Tuesday’s midterms.
Meijer launched a Senate bid in 2023 to replace former Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D), but he withdrew. Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R) eventually earned the GOP nomination, though he lost to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D).
Newhouse was one of two lawmakers to retain his House seat following the impeachment votes.
In 2022, Newhouse defeated Trump-endorsed Loren Culp, a former police chief, in the GOP primary to lead Washington’s 4th Congressional District. He also defeated Republican Jerrod Sessler, a former NASCAR driver who was in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.
Recently, Newhouse signed on to a letter urging Trump to cancel his Russian oil deal . The group of bipartisan lawmakers implored the administration to “not issue further general licenses that reopen Russian energy transactions and restore revenue to the Kremlin’s war chest.”
He announced he would not be seeking reelection in December 2025.
Former Rep. Tom Rice (S.C.) was the first Republican to lose reelection after voting to impeach Trump in 2021.
He lost to Rep. Russell Fry (R), who defended his House seat Tuesday despite major GOP losses in South Carolina — particularly Sen. Darline Graham’s (R) stunning loss to Annie Andrews (D) in the state’s Senate race.
Rice made headlines for refusing to back Harris in the 2024 presidential election, instead saying he would vote for neither her nor Trump.
“Donald Trump is a proven liar and a fraud and thief and a sexual predator. Everyone now knows that,” Rice told The Hill at the time. “But the thing that absolutely disqualifies him from office is his disregard for the Constitution.”
Former Rep. Fred Upton (Mich.) announced his retirement at the end of his term in 2022. He broke a record in the House by being the only lawmaker in the country’s history to vote to impeach two presidents: Trump and former President Clinton.
Though a moderate Republican while in the House, he broke away from the GOP on his impeachment vote and on a national red flag law opposed by most Republican lawmakers.
He also endorsed Harris in 2024 over Trump, calling the president “unfit” to lead again.
“That day was a tragedy for our democracy and Donald Trump is wrong to claim that everything he did was ‘totally appropriate’ when he directly jeopardized the peaceful transition from one administration to the next,” Upton wrote in a statement at the time, referring to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
His district in Michigan is now represented by Rep. Debbie Dingell (D) who handily won reelection this midterm cycle.
Valadao was the last of the group to run for reelection. He is projected to lose to progressive challenger Villegas in the race affected by California’s redistricting effort.
He was one of two to win reelection in 2022, but unlike his other pro-impeachment Republicans, Trump did not endorse a challenger in Valadao’s GOP primary.
Valadao served in the House from 2013 to 2019 before being ousted by former Rep. TJ Cox (D). In a 2021 rematch, Valadao won back his seat and voted to impeach Trump one day after being sworn in.
The outgoing lawmaker notably did not attend the GOP’s first-ever midterm convention in September, electing to stay home instead.
With Valadao and Newhouse exiting the lower chamber, there were will no longer be any Republicans who voted to impeach Trump left in the House.
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