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GOP impeachment backers wrestle with their own political survival after Tom Rice's loss

GOP impeachment backers wrestle with their own political survival after Tom Rice’s loss

“I told him afterward, I said, ‘So much for the adage that members of Congress are more concerned about their next election than their job here,'” retiring Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan recalled telling Rice, in a nod to the fact that his impeachment vote is likely what cost him in last week’s Republican primary for South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District. While Upton’s comments were meant to…