Trump said in a statement he was backing John Gibbs, a software
engineer who was a housing official in Trump's administration,
over Meijer.
Trump has now endorsed six challengers to Republican incumbents
who joined Democrats efforts to boot him from office on a charge
he incited the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 and tried
to reverse Trump's election defeat to Joe Biden.
One of them, Representative Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, has
already bowed out of his race.
Meijer, a freshman member of Congress from Grand Rapids,
Michigan, in January said he was voting to impeach Trump with a
heavy heart but that "he bears responsibility for inciting the
violent acts of insurrection."
While Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives, the
Senate acquitted him.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Scott Malone and Grant
McCool)
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