House Republicans voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas not for any legitimate reason, but because they really want to help Donald Trump look tough on immigration issues ahead of the November presidential election.

The final vote was 214 to 213. A handful of Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the effort: Reps. Ken Buck (Colo.), Tom McClintock (Calif.) and Mike Gallagher (Wis.).

The only other time Congress has impeached a cabinet secretary was in 1876, when it impeached Secretary of War William Belknap for allegedly taking bribes .

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) tried to impeach Mayorkas last week, but in a humiliating misstep , he botched the math and fell one vote short of pulling it off. He held the vote again Tuesday, when he knew that Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) would be back in town after receiving cancer treatments and able to provide the GOP with an extra vote.

Tuesdays vote was just as tight, though, and four lawmakers two Democrats and two Republicans missed it. They were Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), Brian Mast (R-Fla) and Maria Salazar (R-Fla.).

Three of the four publicly said why they missed the vote. Chu said she tested positive for COVID . Frankel was sidelined by a delayed flight . So was Mast .

But Salazar didnt say anything. HuffPost searched her social media posts and her House website for a statement, but nothing came up.

Considering how tight this vote was, Salazars absence and subsequent silence was curious given that shes flip-flopped on the issue of impeachment. The Florida Republican voted last week to impeach Mayorkas, but last year she mocked the idea of doing this, telling The Washington Post a vote like this doesnt do anything to address border issues.

Some of Salazars constituents were pressuring the GOP not to hold an impeachment vote, too. A group of prominent Miami-based Cuban Americans last month publicly urged House Republicans not to go after Mayorkas, who was born in Havana and who they said has a deep love for the United States, because the effort was unconstitutional.

Salazars office told HuffPost on Wednesday that the congresswoman missed the vote due to a medical procedure.

As far as the vote goes, Congresswoman Salazar is on record for previously voting to impeach Secretary Mayorkas, her office said in a statement. Her position has not changed.