Liz Cheney says Trump, GOP backers are ‘on a crusade to undermine our democracy’
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
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)AP
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WASHINGTON 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 “undermine our democracy.”
Pelosi, Schumer Come to Rep. Cheney’s Defense After House GOP Votes to Oust Her
Top Democrats on May 12 came to the defense of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) after she was voted out of her leadership position by House Republicans.
“Congresswoman Liz Cheney is a leader of great courage, patriotism, and integrity. Today, House Republicans declared that those values are unwelcome in the Republican party,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a statement. “For the sake of our democracy, reasonable Republicans across the country must take back their party.”
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), speaking from the Senate floor, said he and Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, disagreed on policy, but said her ouster is a “dark moment” for the GOP, while claiming she “had the courage to tell the truth.”
Updated 5/11/2021 9:35 PM
WASHINGTON 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 undermine our democracy.
In an abruptly announced evening appearance in a nearly empty House chamber, Cheney, R-Wyo., 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 GOP lawmakers and voters, even as it leaves her once promising political career in question.
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GOP UN-CHENED: The vote to oust Rep. Liz Cheney is all but a foregone conclusion; we already know she is a goner. But there are quite a few unknowns to keep an eye on:
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Kevin McCarthy Says Nobody Questions ‘Legitimacy Of The Presidential Election’, Says He’ll Be House Speaker In 2023
May 12th 2021, 1:32 pm
McCarthy declares that nobody in the U.S. House is questioning the 2020 election, and believes he will be House Speaker in 2023
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy – who vehemently supported Liz Cheney as House Republican Conference Chair until Tucker Carlson exposed his decision to live with anti-Trump pollster Frank Luntz – claimed that nobody is questioning the integrity of the 2020 election, then asserted that he will be Speaker of the House in 2023, after Republicans take back the lower chamber in the midterm election.