Kinzinger says he’s ‘very isolated and very lonely’ in the Republican Party

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In an interview with the Washington Post, Kinzinger explained that his convictions of the former president and his supporters made the congressman an outcast in his own party.

“I felt very isolated in my party,” Kinzinger told the newspaper. “Very secluded and very lonely.”

“I think we are going to have an epic battle in the next six months for the definition of this party,” he added, referring to the battle between Republicans who were divided over the support of the former president. amid his false claims that the election was “stolen” from him by President Biden and the deadly Jan.6 riot on the U.S. Capitol.

Kinzinger grabbed the headlines earlier this month when he joined Democrats in calling on Pence to impeach Trump via the 25th Amendment, a process that would involve members of the president’s office declaring him unfit for office. The centrist Republican later said he was “at complete peace” with his decision to vote for both the resolution and the Democrats’ impeachment article.

“Am I worried about my political future? Not really, because honestly, I never got into this business to build a political empire, ”he told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. “I did it to do the right thing and I’m at complete peace today that my vote was the right thing, and I actually think history will judge it that way.

The Illinois congressman, who was re-elected in the fall after voting against the Democrats’ earlier efforts to impeach Trump last year, now faces a top GOP challenger and resistance from government officials. state party who remained loyal to the former president.

“A lot of people were disappointed with Adam’s remarks,” Eli Nicolosi, president of the Republican Party of Winnebago County, Illinois, told The Post. “I think Adam knows his opinion is his opinion alone and that she doesn’t necessarily represent other Republicans. Here in Winnebago County there are a lot of people who are not happy with this.