Endorses primary challengers against two Republicans who defied him

On November 15, 2021, the same day President Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure law, Trump issued statements endorsing primary challengers against two sitting Republicans who had broken with him. He backed Rep. Alex Mooney over fellow West Virginia Republican Rep. David McKinley, citing McKinley's vote for the "'Non-Infrastructure' plan" and McKinley's opposition to keeping the House January 6 committee — which Trump called the "'Unselect Committee' of partisan hacks and degenerates" — off his target list. He also endorsed John Gibbs's primary challenge against Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, calling Meijer "a terrible representative of the Republican Party" over his vote to impeach Trump after January 6. The dual endorsements converted Trump's earlier rhetorical attacks on GOP defectors into concrete efforts to remove them from Congress via intraparty primary challenges.

“Representative Alex Mooney has done an outstanding job as Congressman in West Virginia. In fact, he recently opposed the horrendous Biden Administration's 'Non-Infrastructure' plan, and he opposed the January 6th Committee, also known as the 'Unselect Committee' of partisan” Quote verified against source