Trump endorses freshman House Republican less than six months into first term
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President Donald Trump issued a full-throated endorsement of Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., backing the lawmaker for re-election less than half a year into the freshman House member’s first term in office.
“Abe Hamadeh has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election – HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!” the president declared in a Truth Social post in which he described the congressman as “an America First Patriot.”
Trump endorsed Hamadeh in December 2023, ahead of the 2024 GOP U.S. House primary in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District.
But then later he issued an unusual dual endorsement of both Hamadeh and another GOP primary candidate, Blake Masters, just ahead of the 2024 contest that Hamadeh ultimately won.
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Left: President Donald Trump arrives to South Lawn of the White House from Camp David on Monday, June 9, 2025!; Right: Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., leaves the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Left: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Right: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Back in February Hamadeh introduced a resolution to limit the types of flags that may be displayed in House facilities, though the text of the proposal stipulates that it would not “apply to the individual personal office space of a Member of the House of Representatives.”
The resolution would allow for displaying the American flag and various other kinds of flags, some of which would include “The State flag of the represented district of a Member of the House of Representatives, displayed adjacent to the office of such Member” and “The flags of visiting foreign dignitaries during an official visit.”
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Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., leaves the House Republican’s caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Congress is supposed to embody the AMERICAN people. That’s why I’ve introduced a resolution to ban foreign and ideological flags in the Halls of Congress. It’s pathetic that I even have to introduce this resolution,” Hamadeh declared in a tweet this month.
Six other House Republicans are listed as cosponsors on congress.gov, including three original cosponsors and three other lawmakers listed as backing the measure this month.
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President Donald Trump stands and salutes troops during the celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday on the National Mall on June 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Doug Mills – Pool/Getty Images)
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“You have inspired me and so many other young men and women to fearlessly serve our country in our nation’s Armed Services and the halls of Congress,” Hamadeh wrote in a June 14 letter to Trump marking the president’s 79th birthday and the Army’s 250th.
