Cheney out as House GOP conference chair, may be set to lose her seat entirely in 2022 election
President Trump's political operation is engaged in recruiting opposition for Liz Cheney's 2022 primary as the House GOP prepares to oust her from leadership
House Republicans Wednesday voted Liz Cheney out as their conference chair following months of attacks she has directed and President Trump. (Photo: Tom WIlliams-Pool/Getty Images)
In a move that comes as no surprise, House Republicans voted to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as their conference chairwoman over her repeated criticism of President Donald Trump.
It has been a virtual certainty for over a month that Cheney would be ousted as her irrational vitriol toward Trump has earned her the distrust of most of the Republican Party.
Fascist state-run media is portraying the vote as “a massive shakeup,” one that “threatens to create a new litmus test” for party loyalty. That spin is the result of the so-called MSM being unable to wrap its collective head around the reality that their masters in the Democrat Party have failed Americans after less than four months in office and that the nation is waking up to the fact it was much better off under Trump’s presidency.
The campaign developed to dump Cheney — whom the media is fond of reminding us was, until Wednesday morning, Congress' highest-ranking Republican woman — following her hysterical claims Trump was telling an election “Big Lie.” Cheney is adamant the November 2020 election was not stolen as Trump and his supporters have claimed from the outset.
That is despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
Of particular current interest is the audit of votes cast in Maricopa County, Arizona. Election officials there are stalling auditors from getting the administrative password to Dominion voting machines so they can examine coding that governed vote counts. A Michigan lawsuit filed in January appears to be about to expose other Dominion machine irregularities.
Both states had massive vote dumps for Biden early on Wednesday morning the day after the election, regarded as suspicious by Republicans and other election observers.
The Fascist Democrats and their media have bludgeoned the public with questionable assertions the election was fair and equitable, repeating Cheney’s claims that Trump is lying and that voters had repudiated Trump at the polls.
Over the weeks following the tainted 2020 election, Trump supporters carrying U.S. flags and wearing “Stop the Steal” hats and shirts peacefully demonstrated outside federal courthouses, hoping to see the results overturned. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Federal judges across at least eight states threw out numerous other lawsuits seeking to prove election fraud, filed by the Trump campaign and by individual voters. The dismissals were not based on the merits of the actions but on finding after finding the campaign and the voters “lacked standing” to bring such legal proceedings.
Cheney has become an echo of Democrat arguments that the election was untainted by fraud despite those ongoing lawsuits. Republicans have been united in criticizing the Wyoming Republican, who will likely face a fate similar to Wednesday’s vote in her reelection campaign for the House next year. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday the Republican Party can’t grow without Trump. That seems to be the consensus among GOP members of Congress.
As a result, perhaps as early as Friday, House Republicans will vote to replace Cheney with someone who recognizes the party’s success is tied to Trump and his legacy. Leading up to Wednesday’s vote, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his top deputies made no effort to save Cheney’s job.
Most of the GOP House membership complained that Cheney’s constant readiness to foolishly accuse Trump of lying about the 2020 election was becoming a wedge that prevented threatened to keep th e party from unifying around a cohesive message to win back the House next year.
Cheney continued ther self-inflicted damage to her political career with a misguided defiance both before and after the vote.
“We must be true to our principles and to the Constitution,” Cheney told fellow House Republicans before the closed-door vote, according to a source in the room. “We cannot let the former president drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy. Down that path lies our destruction, and potentially the destruction of our country.”
After the vote, Cheney said that if Trump tries to run again, "I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office."
Cheney voted to impeach Trump for the role House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) fabricated about him in numerous false comments she made to the media following the brief occupation of the U.S. Capitol January 6 by a several BLM and Antifa activists disguised as Trump supporters.
Republicans were angered that Liz Cheney, along with nine other House GOP members, voted to impeach Presdent Trump in January. A split Senate voted to acquit him on false allegations of inciting a riot on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol. (Screen Capture: U.S. Senate TV)
Some Trump enthusiasts caught up in the emotion of a peaceful pro-Trump rally, also entered the Capitol. One of them — 35-year-old USAF veteran Ashli Babbitt — was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer who has not been identified or charged.
When Trump defended the rally-goers last week and again said the results of the 2020 election were fraudulent, Cheney called his words “THE BIG LIE” in a Twitter response. In using that phrase, she attempted to abrogate the accusation millions of Trump supporters make against the Fascist Democrat Party that it uses Hitler’s Big Lie concept — repeating a lie so often and matter-of-factly it becomes accepts as truth.
Cheney’s removal from leadership delivered a demoralizing blow to the small and obnoxious anti-Trump wing of the GOP, while serving up a major victory to conservatives and Trump populists who wanted Cheney voted out of her leadership position in February.
Media Wednesday called it “a stunning fall from grace” for Cheney, but in reality her ouster was easily predictable once she set herself in stern opposition to President Trump and, therefore, the majority of the Republican Party.
Cheney had framed the debate as a fight for democracy and freedom, but instead made it one of vitriol, lack of reason and defiance. She has made clear she feels comfortable being toppled for what she claims is “sticking to her beliefs,” her continued efforts to undermine Trump and his supporters in Congress prove she is not a conservative, but a hardline RINO.
As a result, Republicans back in her home state of Wyoming are plotting how to remove her from Congress entirely.
There is no shortage of Republicans eager to take on Cheney in a 2022 primary since her vote to impeach President Donald Trump and her subsequent criticism of him tanked her popularity in Wyoming. The crowded field is also a risk for the anti-Cheney forces, making it more possible for her to win by simply getting more votes than anyone else who may run against her.
That might be the only path back to Washington for Cheney, barring a drastic change of fortune. Internal polling conducted for Trump’s PAC in January and, more recently, for the pro-Trump Club for Growth show a majority of Wyoming Republicans disapproving of Cheney and her antics as well as strong continuing support for Trump.
Her removal from Congress would be a strong sign that the Republican Party is united in its embrace of President Trump, his policy’s and his America First model. It would be a strong sign that he can — to Cheney’s ultimate anger — again win the White House in 2024.