Meijer has worked to make his policy prescriptions, rather than his impeachment vote, a focal point of the campaign. In his most recent campaign ad Meijer, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, lists the struggles that America is facing, among them inflation, government spending, and border crossings. He promises to leave “headlines and soundbites” to other politicians and to “hold the Biden administration accountable for hurting Michigan families.”
“When it comes to personality politics, it’s fantastic fodder for getting airtime in the culture war on cable news,” Meijer said, “but it doesn’t have any impact on the price of gasoline. It doesn’t have an impact on the employment rate. It doesn’t have an impact on ensuring that our economy is strong and that we are respected on the global stage.”
While he voted to impeach Trump last January, he did not call for a total rejection of what he brought to the Republican Party.
“This is where I’m gonna make a lot of folks who might like me angry, because I am more than happy to talk about the positive steps in the way that Donald Trump brought energy to the Republican Party and the soundness of a lot of his policies that, frustratingly, Joe Biden has sought to reverse,” he said.
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