The Never Trumpers Say No Thank You to Justin Amash

They may have more in common with the conservative congressman, but Republicans looking to oust Trump are all in on Joe Biden

Rep. Justin Amash on the House steps of the Capitol before the House passed the Coronavirus aid package on March 27, 2020. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images

Jennifer Horn, former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party and a co-founder of the Lincoln Project PAC, is an old-school Republican: She values limited government and personal freedom. It would be a fair question, then, to ask whether she would be supporting Rep. Justin Amash, the former Republican from Michigan who announced last week he will seek the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president.

On paper, at least, the Lincoln Project and Amash would seem like a good fit. The Lincoln Project was created in late 2019 as a way to both hold Trump-supporting Republicans accountable and antagonize the president. A recent ad produced by the PAC titled “Mourning in America” seemed to accomplish that latter objective, prompting Trump to lash out on Twitter and label the group “the loser’s project.”

Amash left the GOP to become an independent in July 2019 due to his vocal opposition to Trump; he later became the only non-Democrat in the House to vote to impeach the president. He also founded the House Freedom Caucus in 2015, a group that’s proven to be a crucial conservative bloc on a number of…