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Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) has now officially announced his intention to retire.

The move comes after nearly three decades of service and a long running beef with former President Trump.

As The Washington Examiner reports:

Upton, 68, has represented western Michigan in the House for more than three decades and has toyed with retirement in recent years, only to stick around and fend off the occasional GOP primary challenger and silence conservative critics who accused him of being too centrist. But this year, Upton also was contending with opposition from former President Donald Trump.

Upton voted to impeach Trump toward the end of the former president’s single term in office.

He was one of 10 House Republicans who found Trump culpable for the Jan. 6 ransacking of the Capitol. Combined with changes to his district in decennial reapportionment, Upton appears to have concluded that retirement was preferable to fighting through what could have been the most difficult GOP primary challenge of his career.




Comments

  1. Good go ahead and retire we don’t need no rinos in the Republican party…. Get!
    Take Susan Collins with you and Mike Pence too, he’s too chicken shit to be a Republican, he’s better off teaching Sunday School

  2. Fred Upton enjoy your retirement. It is time. President Trump Maybe a blowhard but he was great for America.

  3. GOOD RIDDANCE! MICHIGAN HAS WAY TOO MANY RINOS WHO SIDE WITH CORRUPTION LIKE PETE MEIJER WHO GOT INTO GOVERNMENT BY BUYING HIS WAY FROM HIS FAMILY THAT OWNS THE MEIJER MARKET BRAND

  4. LISTEN UP….ALL the RINOS have GOT to GO. THEY are SINKING the REPUBLICAN SHIP. SAYONARA. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄😇😇😇

  5. Now, he’s realized 50 CIA employees tried to prevent Trump from winning and he’s afraid to face the music.

  6. Good! Another rino bites the dust! When is Susan Collins going to get it that she is not popular? Along with murkowski, cheyney, and Romney? They all need to go!

  7. In view of the considerable dislike of Michigan voters for the previous, twice-impeached President facing criminal indictments, it will be interesting to see who traditional Republicans will offer to run for Upton’s vacated Congressional seat.

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