House Republicans will vote whether to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position. Here s what s at stake By Zak Hudak Cheney speaks on eve of vote
House Republicans plan to vote Wednesday on whether to strip Representative Liz Cheney of her leadership post in the House as a result of her criticisms of former President Trump and his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
The highest-ranking two Republicans in the House want Cheney to be replaced with Representative Elise Stefanik, a staunch Trump ally, as GOP Conference chair. Cheney won t give up the spot willingly, and she plans to force the conference to vote on whether to remove her, according to a source familiar with her plans.
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WASHINGTON - At least four of Wisconsin’s five Republican U.S. House members say they’ll vote to oust Liz Cheney from her party leadership position in Congress after Cheney s ongoing rebukes of former President Donald Trump.
And that includes at least one lawmaker who publicly supported Cheney on a previous challenge to her leadership in February: Mike Gallagher.
The other three are Glenn Grothman, Bryan Steil and Scott Fitzgerald. (Another Wisconsin Republican, Tom Tiffany, had not responded Tuesday to a reporters query).
Gallagher said in a statement Tuesday:
“House Democrats under Speaker Pelosi have been ruthless in advancing their radical progressive agenda, and Rep. Cheney can no longer unify the House Republican conference in opposition to that agenda. We need to take back the House in 2022 and permanently retire Pelosi.”
But Stefanik s rise in today s Republican Party has relied in part on her rejection of the establishment conservative credentials that got her to this moment.
Her climb to the No. 3 Republican spot required forcing out Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, whom Stefanik nominated for the job twice and once praised as a huge asset in the role.
Since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Cheney has split with Stefanik along with most House Republicans on former President Donald Trump, whom she has publicly and forcefully criticized for his role in inciting the insurrection and his ongoing efforts to falsely discredit the 2020 election.
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To the editor: For more than 70 years I was a Republican, a member of the party that I felt best represented the American people. It stood up against the Jim Crow-era Dixiecrats. (“Kevin McCarthy’s dreams depend on Trump. That means dumping Liz Cheney,” Opinion, May 7)
As often happens, the pendulum has swung. Now, I see a Republican Party with no ethics and no morals that follows the lead of an ex-president who cannot accept defeat.
Republican lawmakers are cowards. They lie their way into pretending they are the patriots. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) wants to be the a henchman of dictator in a totalitarian country rather than a representative in the legislature of a democracy. Former President Trump showed McCarthy what he thought of him on Jan. 6, but McCarthy prefers to demonize Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) because she has the courage to call Trump’s lies what they are.