Kevin McCarthy claims nobody is questioning the legitimacy of the election after Cheney ouster
2:02 p.m.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) evidently can t think of a single person continuing to question whether the 2020 presidential election was legitimate.
McCarthy spoke with reporters at the White House on Wednesday after a meeting with President Biden and asserted that the party has moved on from the 2020 election and that there isn t anybody questioning whether Biden is the legitimate president. I don t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election, McCarthy claimed. I think that is all over with. We re sitting here with the president today.
Rep. Liz Cheney spoke to her colleagues in the House Republican Conference on Wednesday morning shortly before she was ousted as the conference chair by a voice vote.
GOP lawmaker claims there was no insurrection and Capitol riot looked like a normal tourist visit
3:33 p.m.
A Republican lawmaker is being called ridiculous for claiming not only was the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol not an insurrection, but footage from that day resembled a normal tourist visit.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) claimed at a Wednesday hearing about the riot that when supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building to stop the election results from being certified, it was not an insurrection and that it s a lie to say it was. There was an undisciplined mob, he said. There were some rioters and some who committed acts of vandalism. But let me be clear: there was no insurrection.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
As RedState senior editor Joe Cunningham reported earlier, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) was officially ousted from her Conference Chair role this morning after months of back and forth jousting between her camp and GOP House leaders including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as to whether Cheney should be allowed to keep her leadership position considering she’s basically turned into the Mitt Romney of the House.
Though vote tallies won’t be released, political observers speculated in recent days that it wouldn’t even be close as an increasing number of her Republican colleagues were growing frustrated with her continued obsession with litigating and relitigating Trump’s presidency and the Capitol riots in the court of public opinion.