Cheney Forced Out of House Republicans Leadership Post
WASHINGTON Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney has officially been ousted as the third highest-ranking House Republican. She was removed by a voice vote.
According to a person in the room, Cheney told the GOP conference the nation needs a Republican Party “based on truth” to shape the future. She said they cannot let former President Trump “drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy.” Cheney added his path of lies will be the Party’s “destruction.”
Cheney has been in hot water with her own party after she claimed the election was not stolen, despite what Trump and his allies have said. She was also one of ten House Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching Trump for inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
May 12, 2021
Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney is no longer the third highest-ranking House Republican.
She was removed by a voice vote in a meeting that lasted just 20 minutes.
After the meeting, Cheney told reporters that Republicans cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the Constitution.
She said she will do everything in her power to make sure former President Trump never gets near the Oval Office again.
Cheney said the Party cannot be dragged backwards by the dangerous lies of a former President.
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Liz Cheney exposes something profoundly rotten at the core of the Republican Party
Rep. Liz Cheney
It s done. The Republicans in the United States House of Representatives voted this morning to oust Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney as chairwoman of the House GOP conference. I ve been writing obliquely about this pending vote, as I ve been trying to make other points. But let me be plain. Ousting one of their own for the sake of a losing president means the Republican Party is now officially anti-democracy.
Think about it. A pro-democracy party is one that would leave behind the losing president. It would look at his failure, which almost never happens, and reassess what the party must do to win more votes than the other party did. It would expand greatly its policy repertoire to attract a winning national coalition. It would reorganize and restructure to compete harder for a broader spectrum of voters. In brief, it would do something similar to what the Democratic Party di
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