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Former Rep. Peter Meijer has launched a U.S. Senate campaign, entering the race Monday as a long shot for the Republican nomination in Michigan.after joining nine other Republicans who also voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.“My wife and I prayed hard about this race and how we can best serve our state and our nation,” Meijer said in a statement.
National Republicans are behind, a onetime chair of the House Intelligence Committee who briefly floated a 2024 presidential campaign as an anti-Trump conservative. James Craig, a former Detroit police chief, is runningMeijer, a 35-year-old business analyst and former member of the U.S. Army Reserve, has one advantage over his rivals: the ability to self-fund his campaign. While in office, Meijer was ranked as one of theOn the Democratic side, Rep.
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