Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) has served in Congress for 10 years, but that may change, as she now has a new primary opponent following her vote to impeach President Donald Trump last month.
Her challenger in the next primary, which is to be held in 2022, will be Joe Kent, a veteran of the Green Berets, a Gold Star husband, and a staunch Trump supporter.
According to Biz Pac Review, Kent formally announced his entering into the race by putting a video up on YouTube in which he announced, "I’m Joe Kent. I’m an 'America First' Republican running for Congress in Washington State’s 3rd congressional district to primary Jaime Herrera Beutler. I’m primarying Jaime Herrera Beutler because she voted for the impeachment of President Trump against the will of the people of this district."
Kent by no means is engaging in any sort of publicity stunt. He has gone on the record previously as being a huge fan of Trump. He had this to say in an interview last year:
"Trump’s blunt, brutal honesty spoke to me and millions of Americans. As Trump crashed his way onto the political scene, I was in Iraq serving on my ninth combat deployment as a Green Beret."
"Trump’s view of the war on terror accurately reflected the truth on the ground. I was in Iraq to help fight ISIS, with major limitations on how much combat power we could leverage against ISIS."
Kent considers that Beutler had "stabbed us in the back" by not only voting for Trump to be impeached, but also actively participating in the impeachment proceedings against him.
When asked about his opinion on why Beutler did what she did, he stated:
"I don’t know what she was thinking, but we need to get some actual qualified representation of this district into DC to push back hard against the far-left policies that are coming from DC."
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