Justin Amash has left the Republican party. This might allow him to run as an independent since he has almost no chance of winning the Republican nomination for the seat he holds.
He is currently polling at 17% and is losing by double digits. Another opponent has entered the race and she already ties Amash’s 17%. He has called on all Republicans to join him in leaving the party. Amash destroyed his career by calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
Since then voters have abandoned him in support of the president. He has begun to vote with Nancy Pelosi an alarming number of times.
Amash, a libertarian and a critic of President Trump, made the announcement in an op-ed for The Washington Post, in which he said he had once run as a Republican due to the GOP’s belief in limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.
“In recent years, though, I’ve become disenchanted with party politics and frightened by what I see from it,” he said in the op-ed. “The two-party system has evolved into an existential threat to American principles and institutions.”
Amash is the only House Republican to have called for Trump’s impeachment, and his announcement comes weeks after he resigned from the conservative House Freedom Caucus in June. Amash had said he didn’t want to be a “further distraction” for the caucus.
“Some of the president’s actions were inherently corrupt,” Amash tweeted in May about the findings in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report. “Other actions were corrupt — and therefore impeachable — because the president took them to serve his own interests.”