U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzingera Congressman from Illinois who was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach now-former President Trump for "incitement of insurrection" following the then-president's speech goading supporters who then stormed the Capitolhas formed the Country First PAC, HuffPost reported.
Kinzinger said on the NBC show Meet the Press that he is fighting against the former president's influence on the Republican Party.
Kinzinger said he was "disappointed over the last few weeks to see what seemed like the Republican Party waking up, and then kind of falling asleep again and saying, 'Well, you know, what matters is if we can win in two years and we don't want to tick off the base.'"
He also lashed Republican moves to censure party members who voted to impeach Trump as "GOP cancel culture."
Kinzinger's stance on LGBTQ issues is largely unknown. In 2015, he said he accepted the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling affirming same-sex marriage, but thought it should have been a state issue, the conservative publication Illinois Review noted.