Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., said Sunday that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) decision to intervene in the GOP House primary for Michigan’s 3rd District was “dangerous” and “paints a very telling picture about where our 2022 policy stands.” Meijer joined CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday after losing to Trump-backed candidate John Gibbs on Tuesday. “So we have a scenario where not only did I get the former president aligned against me, but in a rare display of bipartisan unity, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic Campaign Committee also joined together to try to get me off the ballot. it highlights the cynicism and hypocrisy of our politics today. And frankly, it will be unknown what that ultimate impact was. But the fact that we have the establishment left and the far right locked arms together gives a very telling picture of where our politics is in 2022,” Meijer told CBS’s Margaret Brennan. The DCCC said it was spending $425,000 on an ad boosting Gibbs in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area. Michigan’s 3rd District Republican congressional candidate Peter Meijer speaks at a campaign rally on Oct. 14, 2020, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) REP. PETER MEIJER ON THE WILL DEMOCRAFT CAMPAIGN FUNDING HIS MAIN OPPONENT: POLITICAL JIU-JITSU “Do you think that ad really made a difference? I mean, Democrats don’t vote in these primaries, Republicans do. Why did Michigan Republicans fall for this ad?” Brennan asked. “I should note that this ad was not targeted, it wasn’t playing on MSNBC. It wasn’t playing in places where Democratic voters could see it. It was targeted in places to try to influence and persuade Republican voters to try to give And I should add that I lost by about 3% in over 100,000 votes, we lost by less than 4,000 votes,” Meijer said. Brennan also asked if he thought the Democrats’ strategy would be successful. “So while I think there’s certainly a cynical calculus at play with the Democrats getting involved, that’s a dangerous, dangerous strategy. Where President Biden has his endorsement is so in the gutter that it’s hard to see that strategy — it’s it is easy to see that this strategy is failing spectacularly, which is all the more reason why we should not embrace the zero-sum idea of politics,” he said. Rep. Peter Meijer appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. (Screenshot/CBS/FaceTheNation) (Screenshot/CBS/FaceTheNation) AFTER TRUMP’S CANDIDATES WIN, SOME DEMOCRATS QUESTION PARTY INTERFERENCE IN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES Democratic groups across the US, including the Democratic Governors Association, are throwing money behind Trump-backed candidates like Gibbs or Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox in an effort to elect GOP candidates they believe the Democrats will have a better chance of winning the general election. Several House Democrats spoke out against the DCCC’s strategy, including Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., who said the move was “unconscionable.” John Gibbs, candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 3rd congressional district, speaks at a rally hosted by former President Donald Trump on April 2, 2022 near Washington, Michigan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) The DCCC celebrated Gibbs’ victory and suggested it would seal the deal for Democrats in the general election. “Last night, Donald Trump’s dream became the Republican Party’s nightmare. John Gibbs’ victory in this primary seals the fate of Republicans hoping to hold onto this now Democratic-leaning district,” the DCCC said in Fox News Digital. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Hanna Panreck is a contributing editor at Fox News.
