10 Republicans voted to impeach Trump. The game was fast.

Mr Norton said he believed Mr Meijer had erred in accusing Mr Trump of inciting the riot.

“We have a lot of people with a lot of passion and we can’t control everyone,” he said, before continuing to exaggerate the pockets of unrest that took place alongside the largely peaceful protests of the year. last for racial justice. “To blame President Trump is to blame Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for all the riots the antifa committed last summer.

Representative John Katko from central New York, who was the first GOP lawmaker to support impeachment, is one of the few remaining Republicans to represent a Democratic-leaning district. Some Republicans in his district were outraged by his vote.

“Not very happy” would be the polite way to put it, “said Fred Beardsley, chairman of the Oswego County Republican Committee. “We are very upset. I am extremely upset.

“I think Mr. Katko crossed a line,” he continued. “He overtook us.

For Mr. Katko and Reps Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, David Valadao of California, and Fred Upton and Mr. Meijer of Michigan, all Republicans who voted for impeachment are from States likely to lose seats in this year’s redistribution process, the shapes of the neighborhoods they might seek to represent in 2022 remain to be determined.

Lawmakers in the Democratic states of New York and Illinois could lure Mr Katko and Mr Kinzinger to districts represented by other sitting Republicans, potentially blocking the way for a Trumpian insurgent, while commissions will determine the boundaries districts in California, Michigan and Ohio.

Gene Koprowski, a conservative filmmaker who filed against Mr Kinzinger, said he did it to start fundraising, but is waiting for the Illinois legislature to redraw the maps of his congressional districts before officially launching a campaign.

The protesters of Ms. Cheney, who represents the only district of Wyoming, do not face the same calculation. Anthony Bouchard, a state senator, announced his campaign on Wednesday as President Biden was being inaugurated. Thursday night, he was a guest on Newsmax TV and Laura Ingraham’s program on Fox News.