None of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump will be in the next Congress
The last of the ten is gone now. David Valadao's defeat by Randy Villegas in California removes the final House Republican who voted to impeach Trump over the Capitol attack, and once the new Congress is seated, none of that group will remain. I remember Valadao as someone who kept winning a difficult district, so his fall carries real weight.
The paths out were different for all of them. Some retired rather than face voters, some lost primaries to Trump-backed challengers, and some went down in the general election. The common thread is that the impeachment vote followed them to the end, and in a party where loyalty to Trump is measured so closely, it proved decisive.
I'd be careful about reading one clean lesson from it. The ones who lost primaries tell us something blunt about how the GOP base now treats dissent. The general election losses, including Valadao's, are murkier, since he represented a district where national politics and local concerns mix in complicated ways. What I'd want to know is how much the impeachment vote mattered to the voters who actually turned him out, versus inflation, abortion, or anything else on the ballot. Still, the headline is hard to miss: every one of those ten is out, and that will shape how the next Republican who faces a similar choice calculates the price.