Democrats Working to Oust One Of the Few Republicans Who Voted To Impeach Trump...in Favor of Pro-Trump Candidate?

 There's no mistaking it; the Democrats are creating their own enemy in order to scare people into voting for them:

(CNN)In the final days of Rep. Peter Meijer's close fight for his party's nomination, the Michigan Republican and his allies are slamming Democrats for meddling in Tuesday's GOP primary.

An outside group supporting Meijer -- one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump -- launched a new ad over the weekend criticizing the Democratic establishment for helping the freshman congressman's Trump-backed opponent.

"Fox News confirms it: Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to elect their hand-picked candidate for Congress in the Republican primary, John Gibbs," the ad warns. "West Michigan must say no to Nancy Pelosi's handpicked candidate for Congress."

And in a Monday morning post for the Common Sense Substack, Meijer rails against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as well as some of his Democratic colleagues -- including some who sit on the House select committee investigating the events surrounding January 6, 2021 -- for defending the House Democrats' political arm.

"The Democrats are justifying this political jiu-jitsu by making the argument that politics is a tough business. I don't disagree. But that toughness is bound by certain moral limits: Those who participated in the attack on the Capitol, for example, clearly fall outside those limits," Meijer writes. "But over the course of the midterms, Democrats seem to have forgotten just where those limits lie."

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Not all Democrats are thrilled with the strategy.

"I believe Democrats should focus on helping Democrats win," Rebecca Katz, a longtime Democratic strategist who is now advising John Fetterman's Senate campaign in Pennsylvania, told CNN last week. "In this year of all years, why make that gamble in a Republican primary? It just seems like their priorities are out of whack."

In his Substack post, Meijer writes that the gambit in his district undermines the "moral high ground" Democrats have taken.

"As the January 6 Select Committee continues to warn about the ongoing threat to democracy, their own party dues are paying to help elect the same villains they rail against," Meijer writes.

This didn't work for Hillary Clinton. Even if it did, it's a rather disgusting way to get votes, especially when they can earn them by actually doing something to improve people's lives.