The House Republican Conference stood up for Rep. Liz Cheney just a few short months ago, and suddenly the relationship has gone south. It has gone south at about the same time census numbers have come out giving the GOP a real advantage to taking back the House of Representatives. It also comes as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has made several trips to Florida to engage with and sweet-talk former President Donald Trump. Now, suddenly, McCarthy has been caught on a hot mic at Fox News bashing Cheney.
My educated hypothesis is that a great deal of the sudden antagonism toward Cheney has to do with placating Trump in the run-up to the 2022 election cycle. My guess is that it has less to do with Cheney in charge of the House GOP Conference something the GOP was perfectly fine to defend, even after her impeachment vote. McCarthy is too savvy to talk with a hot mic. He most likely knew it would get circulated.
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Trump allies search for viable Cheney foe in Wyoming amid fight over ‘Big Lie’
Chuck Gray, a Wyoming Republican state legislator, “absolutely” believes that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
He won’t say if Trump supporters were the ones who stormed the Capitol on January 6, instead falsely blaming the “insider media” for “supporting” the looting and rioting in the country last summer.
He says that Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney’s vote to impeach Trump for inciting the riot was “unconscionable and disgusting” and cannot stand her months-long effort to push back against Trump’s Big Lie that he actually won the race.
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Joe Biden is a different man. Transformed at 78, he speaks soberly to the times that try our souls. The glibness is gone.
As the pandemic eases and the economy warms up, the president hits the right notes concern and competence in a crisis presidency.
“Uncle Joe” has none of former President Barack Obama’s show-stopping eloquence. That’s fine.
As president, Biden is reaching for higher fruit than Obama ever did. He’s ending the longest war. He’s going big to bridge us together on the home front in broadband, steel and concrete, railways, education, the grid and child care.