House Republicans on Wednesday morning voted to boot Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from leadership after the foreign policy hawk and outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump ran afoul of a majority of the party she’d chaired since 2018.
Cheney remained defiant after the vote to remove her from her key leadership role as House Republican Conference chairwoman — a move that does not remove her from office or oust her from the GOP.
Cheney, the oldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was the highest-ranking Republican female in Congress.
The frontrunner to replace Cheney, who was first elected to the lower chamber in 2016, is New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, though that vote is slated for Friday.
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Rather than because of her attitudes Vis a Vis the former president but because cultural values of her and her family shouldn’t and don’t match the Republican party
this is well deserved
While Stefanik received wide backing for the position, Representative Chip Roy (R., Texas) said on Tuesday that Stefanik’s voting record was not conservative enough to merit the position of Conference Chair.
“With all due respect to my friend, Elise Stefanik, let us contemplate the message Republican leadership is about to send by rushing to coronate a spokesperson whose voting record embodies much of what led to the 2018 *-kicking we received by Democrats,” Roy wrote in a memo to colleagues.
They should not kick her out of the GOP. We don’t need to increase the Democrat majority in the House.