On Wednesday, Republicans removed Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership role in the House. She was Number 3, in the GOP till Wednesday. This decision was almost foretold as the members of the GOP are moving more and more towards Trump and anyone who criticizes him becomes persona non grata. The few Republicans who have stood up to him have faced a backlash from the former president who has also vowed to campaign for the defeat of any GOP leader or any member from the rank and file who dares to speak the truth or speaks against what he currently terms as “THE BIG LIE.”
Liz Cheney is one of the very few prominent Republicans who has stood up against Trump. She had criticized him for spreading the lie that the elections were stolen from him. She was one of the few who supported his second impeachment. She has also been one of the few vocal Republicans who believes that the party needs to go back to its conservative ideology instead of revolving around a cult like figure.
Cheney was censored for her remarks by the Wyoming GOP a few months ago. She survived an attempt to remove her from her top position, earlier. The first time she had support from many of the Republicans but not for the second time, despite the fact that both the times the voting was by secret ballot.
She was defeated in the second attempt to remove her from the party position. The meeting began at 9 a.m. ET and was on for less than half an hour. Recently, two top ranking House Republicans – Kevin McCarthy who is the Minority Leader and Steve Scalise who is the Minority Whip, indicated that they would no longer support Cheney, as the House GOP conference chair.
Liz Cheney remains true to her nature by saying that she would continue to fight against Trump. She was one of the first leaders to denounce the former president for his alleged role in the insurrection on the Capitol on January 6. She subsequently voted for his impeachment. When Trump proposed new rhetoric called “THE BIG LIE” in place of “Stop the Steal,” which many believed was one of the direct causes of the January 6 riot, Cheney was one of the few who tweeted against it.
On May 3, 2021 she tweeted:
“The 2020 presidential election was not
stolen. Anyone who claims it was is
spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their
back on the rule of law, and poisoning
our democratic system.”
The people of America chose Joseph Biden to be their President in the November 2020 elections. The Supreme and High Courts of America, including Supreme Court Justices nominated by the then President Trump, ruled that the elections were conducted in a free and fair manner under democratic norms. Yet, Donald Trump still believes that the elections were stolen from him and huge swaths of his followers and members from the GOP believe him.
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