None of the House Rs who voted to impeach Trump will be in Congress after this year

None of the House Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection will be in Congress after this year following Tuesday’s election.
The last Republican still in the House was outgoing Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) who was defeated by Democrat Randy Villegas.
Valadao was among the 10 House Republicans who crossed the aisle to impeach Trump following the Capitol attack. Former Reps. Liz Cheney (Wy.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) were the only two to serve on the House Select Submitted on Jan. 6 which infuriated Republicans and drew Trump’s ire.
In 2022, 8 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-Wy.) At the time, Trump has endorsed a number of candidates in GOP primary battles in an effort to unseat Republicans whom he believed crossed him following the 2020 election and Capitol riot.
Here’s a list of the 10 former House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump:
Liz Cheney
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 the vice chair of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.
Hageman recently ascended to Wyoming’s open Senate seat in Tuesday’s midterm election.
Cheney vowed she would do whatever she could to make sure that the former president did not return near the White House again 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.
Anthony Gonzalez
Former Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), a former football player, announced he would not be seeking another term in the House months after he voted to impeach Trump.
Trump endorsed outgoing Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) in Ohio’s 7th congressional district race who just lost to Rep.-elect Brian Poindexter (D-Ohio).
Gonzalez’s impeachment vote enraged Ohio’s Republican Party’s central committee, particularly, who censured him and called for his resignation in May 2021.
He 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 committee.
Jamie Herrera Beutler
Former Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) lost in a crowded primary to Trump-backed Republican Joe Kent. Kent eventually lost in the general election to Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez (D-Wash.)
Gluesenkamp Pérez recently defeated a Republican challenger to retain Washington’s 3rd congressional district seat.
The Washington State Republican Party condemned Herrera Beutler at the time for her support of Trump’s impeachment.
John Katko
Former Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) announced his retirement close to one year after he voted to impeach Trump. He also planned to step down as chairman of the Republican Governance Group, a caucus of moderate House Republicans he has led since 2017.
The firm that Katko worked for was hired by the National Hockey League to lobby on issues related to league event security.
His successor was Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) who has earned Trump’s endorsement in the 2026 election cycle. She defended her seat in an election cycle that saw the GOP losing in competitive elections, particularly in red strongholds.
Adam Kinzinger
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 Oct. 2021, following a redistricting effort that would have pitted him against Trump-backed Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.). LaHood won reelection in 2026 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.
Peter Meijer
Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) lost in the primaries to Trump-backed Republican John Gibbs.
At the time, Meijer and Kinzinger condemned the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for running an ad they say boosted Gibbs, who has supported Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Gibbs ultimately lost to challenger Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) in 2022. She easily won reelection in Tuesday’s midterm.
Meijer launched a Senate bid in 2023 to replace former Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) but withdrew. Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) eventually earned the GOP nomination though he lost to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).
Dan Newhouse
Retiring Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) was 1 of 2 to retain his House seat after the GOP primaries – defeating Trump-endorsed Loren Culp, a former police chief, and former NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler, who was in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6.
Recently, Newhouse signed onto a letter urging Trump to cancel his Russian oil deal. The group 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 Dec. 2025.
Tom Rice
Former Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) became the first Republican who voted to impeach Trump over Jan. 6 to lose reelection.
He lost to Rep. Russel Fry (R-S.C.) who defended his House seat on Tuesday despite major GOP losses in the Palmetto State – particularly Sen.-elect Annie Andrews’s (D-S.C.) triumph over outgoing Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.)
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.”
Fred Upton
Former Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) announced his retirement at the end of his term in 2022. He made history in the House by being the only lawmaker in the country’s history to vote to impeach two presidents – one for Trump and one for former President Bill Clinton.
Though a moderate Republican while in the House, he broke away from Republicans 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 in 2024.
His district in Michigan is now represented by Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) who handedly won reelection this midterm cycle.
David Valadao
Outgoing Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) was the last of the group to run for reelection. He is projected to lose to progressive challenger Rep.-elect Randy Villegas (D-Calif.) in a race affected by California’s redistricting effort.
He was one of two to win reelection in 2022, but unlike other pro-impeachment Republicans, Trump did not endorse a challenger to Valadao in his primary.
Valadao served in the House from 2013 to 2019 before being ousted by former Rep. T.J. Cox (D-Calif.). 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 midterm convention – electing to stay home.
With his and Newhouse’s House exit, there will be no House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump left in the lower chamber.
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