There is little doubt that House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) will be stripped of her office on Wednesday, as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has made clear he has lost confidence in her. But on Monday s edition of CNN s OutFront, anchor Erin Burnett laid out how even some Republicans particularly the wing of the party critical of Trumpism are recoiling at the optics of such a move. In an irony, McCarthy writing to his Republican colleagues tonight, wrote Burnett. I quote him: We are a big tent party and unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate. Let s talk about this. McCarthy is kicking out Cheney for having a different opinion. He says it is for a big tent party that embraces free thought and debate. Wow, he has in polite terms. Liz Cheney says the election was free and fair and Trump is responsible for what happened on January 6th. These are facts, and as a point of fact, once upon a time, Cheney and McCarthy agreed on facts on the cru
Announcing Cheney Ouster, McCarthy Insists GOP Is âA Big Tent Partyâ
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday announced Republicans will vote to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her leadership role in the party â a punishment meted out because Cheney has said Donald Trump should not play a role in the future of the GOP.
McCarthy made the announcement in a letter to House Republicans, in which he claimed that the GOP is a big tent party that embrace[s] free thought and debate â even as Republicans are quite literally demoting a member for using her platform to criticize Trump.
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The ongoing Republican leadership battle in Congress involving Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Conference Chair Liz Cheney over whether Cheney should hold on to her leadership position going forward is set to be resolved later this week as McCarthy has confirmed Wednesday as the day a vote to recall Cheney from that position will take place.
We’ve reported extensively on the war of words between the two camps, and on how Cheney has heavily depended on liberal media outlets who have never been friendly to the GOP in order to get her “message” out. In addition to that have been her epic lapses in judgment in relying on “bombshell” news reports from those same outlets about former President Trump that turned out to be fake news.
Republicans Are Actively Destroying Democracy, Says Former Pence Adviser
On 5/11/21 at 4:00 AM EDT
In an appearance on
The Reidout on MSBNC on Monday night, Olivia Troye told Joy Reid that Republican efforts to regain power show that Trumpism has a hold of the country right now a prospect she described as horrifying.
Troye was Pence s homeland security adviser and also served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force before quitting the Trump administration in August last year.
Since then, Troye, the director of the Republican Accountability Project, has been outspoken in her criticism of the former president and the Big Lie that he won the 2020 presidential election.
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