Analysis: Why Trump should be worried about Justin Amash
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 20 at 9:00 AM When President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified before Congress earlier this year, one member on the Republican side of the hearing stood out. While the rest of the Republicans were resolute in their efforts to attack Cohen’s credibility, Rep. Justin Amash was actually interested in the substance of Cohen’s accusations against Trump.
We now know that Amash is much more than concerned; he’s on the impeachment train. Amash this weekend became the first congressional Republican to call for Trump’s impeachment, citing the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
And Amash’s motivations would go further than just Trump. He has decried the “two-party duopoly” in American politics — a pregnant statement from a man who ran for and serves in office as a Republican — and he has criticized his own tea party wing of the party for selling out its principles. If you think my job is to support the president one hundred percent, then you don’t understand what it means to be a representative in Congress. My job is to support the Constitution one hundred percent and to represent all the people of my district by protecting their rights.
There is evidence that home states tend to be better for third-party candidates. New Mexico, where Johnson served as a Republican governor, gave him 9 percent in 2016, while Utah gave Evan McMullin 21 percent. Texas was one of Ross Perot’s better states when he ran in 1992 and 1996, as was Minnesota when Sen. Eugene McCarthy waged a quixotic 1976 independent bid.
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