Around January 27th 2021, 8th District House Rep. Brad Klippert announced he would seek to unseat 4th District Congressional Rep. Dan Newhouse; largely because of Newhouse being one of the ten GOP House Reps who voted to support a Democratic led impeachment of President Donald Trump despite him not winning re-election.
That, and other factors, led Klippert to announce his candidacy. Klippert, along with fellow 8th House Rep. Matt Boehnke, are staunch conservative legislators. At the time, the announcement was met with a flood of support, comments and feedback from furious GOP voters.
They were very unhappy with Newhouse supporting what many said was an un-Constitutional impeachment process.