By Melanie Zanona, Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 10:28 AM ET, Wed November 17, 2021
(CNN)Donald Trump has been on a retribution campaign against the House Republicans who voted to impeach him. Now the former President is expanding his revenge tour to include a new crop of members: GOP lawmakers who backed the bipartisan infrastructure law.
This week, Trump inserted himself squarely into the middle of a member-on-member matchup in West Virginia, where two incumbent Republicans who voted different ways on the infrastructure law will be pitted against each other next year because redistricting lumped their districts into one.
Trump endorsed Rep. Alex Mooney after they met at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Friday, a week after Mooney had voted against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. His GOP opponent, Rep. David McKinley, voted for it.
“It seals the deal,” Mooney told CNN, referring to his Trump endorsement.
But McKinley, who has been touting the billions designated for roads and bridges in his state, said on Tuesday that his constituents and county mayors have been clamoring for such a program for years.
“They’ve wanted infrastructure,” McKinley said
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Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/politics/west-virginia-house-race-mooney-mckinley-trump-infrastructure/index.html