‘Fox News Sunday’ panel discusses whether Rep. Liz Cheney will lose the House GOP leadership position.
OJ Simpson sounded off Tuesday on the Republican Party leadership battle in the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who is facing stiff opposition over her decision to vote in favor of President Trump s second impeachment, and claiming Trump s rhetoric can provoke violence again after right-wing activists broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Cheney, the 3rd-ranking House Republican, also earned the ire of her colleagues by continually rebuffing claims Trump s loss to Joe Biden was affected by election irregularities. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York is widely seen as Cheney s successor, should she lose her Wednesday confidence vote.
The NYT hates Trump so much, it s in love with Liz Cheney, the warmonger s wamonger.
The vilification of Liz Cheney and a bizarre vote recount in Arizona showed the damage from his assault on a bedrock of democracy: election integrity.
Locked out of Facebook, marooned in Mar-a-Lago and mocked for an amateurish new website, Donald J. Trump remained largely out of public sight this week. Yet the Republican Party’s capitulation to the former president became clearer than ever, as did the damage to American politics he has caused with his lie that the election was stolen from him.
In Washington, Republicans moved to strip Representative Liz Cheney of her House leadership position, a punishment for denouncing Mr. Trump’s false claims of voter fraud as a threat to democracy. Lawmakers in Florida and Texas advanced sweeping new measures that would curtail voting, echoing the fictional narrative from Mr. Trump and his allies that the electoral system was
Republicans take steps to hide discouraging polls about Trump
The National Republican Congressional Committee apparently doesn t want its own members to know about Trump s unpopularity in key districts.
President Donald Trump holds a campaign event for Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in Valdosta, Ga., on Dec. 5, 2020.Jonathan Ernst / Reuters file
May 10, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump made up polling data that purportedly showed his widespread popularity. Independent surveys pointed in very different directions, but the Republican dismissed those polls by insisting they were part of an elaborate conspiracy against him.
During his semi-retirement, very little has changed. Trump recently appeared on Dan Bongino s show, and when asked about the possibility of a third presidential campaign in 2024, the Republican said, I am giving it the most serious consideration as you can imagine and based on every poll that I m seeing a