Amid Illinois Democrats crafting a congressional map that might eliminate Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s district, conservatives are increasingly at odds with the staunch anti-Trump lawmaker.
“I don’t think his prospects are all that good,” declared Boulton. “He’s decided to go this way and take this course [against] President Trump. I think Adam could have been a good candidate had he not done what he did with President Trump. I don’t think many in the party support him.”
“I don’t think he can win a primary,” the chairman also said.”I really don’t. Not a statewide primary. He’s just not going to be able to do it.”
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Boulton’s comments come as Kinzinger continues to distance himself from the mainstream Republican Party. Kinzinger was one of 10 GOP members who voted to impeach Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and claimed this week the former president’s administration “set [the Biden administration] up to fail” in Afghanistan.
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Last month, members of the GOP’s House Freedom Caucus called on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to implement a rule that would prohibit members who joined an opposing party committee from remaining in the House Republican Conference. This would apply to Kinzinger and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who was appointed by Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to sit on Jan. 6. riot commission.
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“It is antithetical to having sitting in your conference individuals who have professed that they want to take out the minority leader and that they want to join the Democrats on a witch hunt through the Republican Party to try to take members of the Republican Party out,” GOP Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs insisted at the time.
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Democrats in Illinois redrew the state’s legislative map based on census data and have scheduled multiple hearings prior to next week’s special session to finalize matters. The new map would reportedly eliminate Kinzinger’s district, according to sources who spoke to Politico. ” …[F]ew party operatives in D.C. or Illinois could envision a final plan that leaves much of Kinzinger’s seat intact,” the outlet noted.
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Spokeswoman Maura Gillespie from Kinzinger’s office refused to comment, and his campaign did not respond either.
Kinzinger maintains that he would not rule out a run for senator or governor, but Boulton said it would be a mistake.
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“He can undertake it if he wants to,” Boulton said. “I’m simply saying that I have my doubts as to whether he can win a statewide primary right now — for either seat. That’s all stuff he brought on himself, he didn’t have to do this.”
Boulton said Kinzinger goes out of his way to grandstand against his own party.
“You have to take a holistic view of President Trump. There’s some bad but there’s an awful lot of good. And Mr. Kinzinger decided only to focus on the bad for his own purposes. That I really take issue with,” he concluded.
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