{"id":11873,"date":"2022-04-08T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mydailyfreedom.com\/?p=11873"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:42:20","slug":"upton-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/upton-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"This is it for me: GOP Rep who voted to impeach Trump backs out of reelection, gets slammed by Donald right after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Representative Fred Upton of Michigan, who tried to oust Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, announced Tuesday that he won&#8217;t go for his re-election to a 19th term in Congress. It appears Donald Trump and redistricting pushed Upton to this decision. Trump said in a statement about the retirement: &#8220;Upton Quit!&#8221;<br \/>\nWATCH Upton&#8217;s news video:<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 854px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11873-1\" width=\"854\" height=\"650\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/upton-retirement.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/upton-retirement.mp4\">https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/upton-retirement.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nUpton, who is 68, joins Reps. John Katko from New York, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, and Adam Kinzinger from Illinois as Republicans who advocated impeachment but did not seek re-election.<br \/>\n&#8220;Even the finest stories have ending chapters. This is it for me&#8221;, Upton stated during his remarks on the House floor, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/congress-michigan-fred-upton-republican\/2022\/04\/05\/id\/1064352\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<br \/>\nUpton produced a campaign ad in February that seemed to indicate he was more likely to be running. In the state&#8217;s southwestern area, the once-in-a-decade redistricting process had put him in the same GOP-leaning seat as sixth-term U.S. Representative Bill Huizenga.<br \/>\nHuizenga recently received Trump&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Representative Fred Upton of Michigan, who tried to oust Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, announced Tuesday that he won&#8217;t go for his re-election to a 19th term in Congress. It appears Donald Trump and redistricting pushed Upton to this decision. Trump said in a statement about the retirement: &#8220;Upton Quit!&#8221; WATCH Upton&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"This is it for me: GOP Rep who voted to impeach Trump backs out of reelection, gets slammed by Donald right after\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/upton-retires\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about This is it for me: GOP Rep who voted to impeach Trump backs out of reelection, gets slammed by Donald right after\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}