Trump Tells Fitzpatrick, ‘Voting Against Me Doesn’t Work Out Well’
Speaking to reporters on his way to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday, President Donald Trump took time to disparage Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-01) for not fully supporting the president and his agenda.
Trump shut down a question from Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich about Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu to offer some off-the-cuff remarks about the five-term Bucks County congressman.
“But her husband votes against me all the time. Can you imagine? I don’t know what’s with him,” said Trump to the gaggle of reporters. “You better ask him what’s with him. Her husband is married to a certain congressman. He likes voting against Trump. You know what happens with that … doesn’t work out well.”
The president did misspeak, as Heinrich and Fitzpatrick are engaged to be married.
Fitzpatrick has voted against Trump several times, including last week when he, along with two other Republicans, supported a failed effort to end the war in Iran by requiring Trump to seek congressional approval.
He was one of two GOP House members to oppose Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” along with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Massie lost his primary contest yesterday to a Trump-backed challenger, Ed Gallrein.
Earlier this week on social media, Trump posted his support for the statewide Republican candidates on the ballot with the notable exception of Fitzpatrick.
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The Bucks County lawmaker ran unopposed for the GOP nomination in PA-01 and will face Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie in the general election. Harvie has spent much of his time and focus on tying Fitzpatrick to Trump.
“Brian Fitzpatrick first ran for Congress promising he would be independent-minded, but now has sold Bucks and Montgomery County families out to the highest bidder,” said DCCC chair Suzan DelBene. “Fitzpatrick has changed and shown that when push comes to shove, he will fall in line with Donald Trump and his billionaire donors as Pennsylvania families pay the price.”
Other national Republicans have not left Fitzpatrick’s side.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) held a fundraiser for Fitzpatrick in April to bolster a war chest that contained over $7.3 million at the end of April.
