Cheney set to be face of anti-Trump GOP
By Scott Wong
9 hours ago
When Republicans vote Wednesday to expel House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney from the No. 3 leadership post, it will cement the Wyoming Republican and political scion as the face of the anti-Trump movement in the party.
What remains unclear is whether her apostasy leads to a political cul-de-sac or becomes the launching pad to a more prominent role within a Republican Party that’s still grappling with its identity in a post-Trump Washington.
Until now, that splintered Never Trump faction has had no apparent leader. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the 2008 presidential nominee who repeatedly clashed with former President Trump , died in 2018. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R), the centrist Alaskan, and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), the party’s 2012 standard-bearer, both backed Trump’s impeachment this year but don’t lean into every Trump controversy.
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FILE - In this April 20, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the House Republican Conference chair, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Denton Knapp, a retired U.S. Army colonel from California, says he will challenge Cheney in next year s Republican U.S. House primary in Wyoming. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) May 11, 2021 - 6:41 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) â A combative Rep. Liz Cheney lashed out at leaders of her own Republican Party late Tuesday, taking to the House floor on the eve of her near-certain ouster from a leadership post to warn that former President Donald Trump and his GOP supporters are threatening to âundermine our democracy.â
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Cheney, who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Capitol insurrection, is expected to be ousted from her No. 3 Republican leadership post Wednesday. She spoke Tuesday.
A combative Liz Cheney lashed out at leaders of her own Republican Party late on Tuesday (local time), taking to the House floor on the eve of her near-certain ouster from a leadership post to warn that former US President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters are threatening to “undermine our democracy.” In an abruptly announced evening appearance in a nearly empty House chamber, Cheney cast herself as a defender of the Constitution. Her four-minute speech also served notice that she had no intention of backing down in her battle against a former president who has retained loyalty among many Republican politicians and voters, even as it leaves her once promising political career in question.