Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), who has endorsed Davis, said that while other GOP lawmakers lost primaries many of them had been critical of Trump and “that wasn’t the case with Rodney.”
“What’s really wild is that even though he didn’t get the nod from Trump, he was one of Trump’s coordinators in his last election,” Bost added. “I think that Rodney will win. I’m sorry that they were thrown together like that.”
Davis, asked about his dealings with Trump in a brief interview, said that they had a “good working relationship” while he was in the White House but acknowledged that, “I haven’t spoken with the president in a while.”
A probe into the select committee would be a significant escalation of the House GOP’s months-long effort to undercut the investigation into Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election, and could put Republicans who have been of interest to the Jan. 6 panel in charge of investigating it. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who has been contacted by the panel over a tour he led on Jan. 5, is on the House Administration Committee.
And Davis, who was first elected in 2012, could be seen as an odd fit for spearheading a GOP investigation into the select committee next year.
He voted to certify Biden’s 2020 election win and was one of 35 House Republicans who supported a proposal for a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission that ultimately died in the Senate. Those two votes put him at odds with most of his House Republican colleagues, including members of leadership. Miller hasn’t hesitated to hit him on those points during the campaign.
He’s also been ranked as one of the top 10 most bipartisan House Republicans during 2021, according to the The Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Those moderate leanings, an asset for his previous district, have become a potential liability as he tries to win over a more conservative area of the state.
Miller, whose campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment, has nicknamed him “‘RINO’ Rodney Davis,” an acronym that stands for Republican in name only, and said that he “stabbed President Trump in the back by voting for the sham January 6th Commission.” Though Davis supported the bipartisan commission, he did not vote…
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