Rep. Matt Gaetz traveled to Wyoming on Thursday to oust Republican Caucus House Speaker Liz Cheney over her vote to accuse former President Trump, emphasizing divisions within the IDP as it struggles with its identity in the aftermath of Trump’s presidency.
Gaetz voted during the protest against ‘neocons’, ‘forever wars’ and Cheney’s accusation while accusing Cheney, R-Wyo., Of blood on her hands. The event can be considered the first well-watched congress of the 2022 congress in 2022.
“Now Liz Cheney is teasing me for wearing makeup in my television shows. Now makeup hides only the slightest imperfections of the skin. It helps a lot to hide the soulless corruption of Washington DC,” Gaetz said. He was referring to a remark by a Cheney, R-Wyo., Spokesman in response to Gaetz’s rally plans, that “In Wyoming, men do not wear makeup.”
“It’s pretty easy for me to get a little makeup off my shirt,” Gaetz continues. “It’s much harder for Liz Cheney to get the blood out of her hands after she sent America’s best to foreign lands to die for unparalleled gain and personal gain.”
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Is under fire from Trump loyalists in the GOP over her accusation. (Photo by: William B. Plowman / NBC / NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)
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Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy, leader of the House in Florida, met with Trump in Mar-a-Lago in Florida to repair the fences after the former president allegedly took offense because McCarthy said he bears part of the responsibility for the January 6 attack on the Capitol – an attitude that McCarthy later reversed.
“Today, President Trump is committed to helping the House of Representatives and Senate election in 2022,” McCarthy said in a statement, crediting Trump for helping Republicans in the House meet expectations in 2020. to surpass. “A united conservative movement will strengthen and uphold the bonds of our citizens. The freedoms on which our country is founded.”
McCarthy has also called on House Republicans over the past few weeks to be careful with their attacks on each other, with the aim of keeping any fractures in the conference internal. But a few hours after his meeting with Trump, one of the high-profile members of his conference held a political rally against one of the members of his leadership team.
During the protest, Gaetz stressed the attempt to remove Cheney as the GOP conference chair, for which there is currently no clear timeline. But he urged the crowd at the end of the protest to vote Cheney out of office in 2022.
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“We are in a battle for the soul of the Republican Party and I intend to win it,” Gaetz said. “You can help me. You can help me break a corrupt system. You can send a representative you represent and you can send Liz Cheney home – back home in Washington, DC. It’s going to take two years, but let’s go get them. ‘
McCarthy expressed his support for Cheney to remain the GOP conference chair, a position Fox News first reported. McCarthy’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Gaetz’s protest.
And while Trump was meeting with McCarthy, he was planning the key challenges facing members of McCarthy’s caucus that Trump said were not loyal enough to him.
“The president still has enormous support and approval among Republican primary voters. He still has hundreds of millions of dollars in his campaign account, which he can use,” Cory Lewandowski, a longtime Trump adviser, told Fox News on Thursday. “And he will continue to be actively involved in the recruitment of candidates and to hold elected officials accountable for their votes.”
Lewandowski said Trump would be involved in supporting primary challenges against some of the ten Republicans of the House who voted to accuse him.
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“I think they will all face primary challenges,” Lewandowski said. “I do not know at what level the president will weigh in each of the races, but I think he will be involved in a number.” And he said the poll on Liz Cheney, which was unveiled by Trump’s leadership PAC last night, is just the first of many Republican-opposed to the former president.
Referring to the poll at Thursday’s rally, Gaetz said: “I think our position is the right one … remove Liz Cheney as the leader of the Republican conference, because based on the numbers I have seen, Liz Cheney was less popular among Republicans than Muammar Gaddafi was among Libyans. ‘
He then introduced Donald Trump Jr. before, who joined the protest by telephone.
“It’s time to have a change at the top,” Trump Jr. said. “And since the residents of Wyoming are clearly not excited about Liz Cheney, let’s look for someone who can replace her and actually do the job well.”
Meanwhile, Cheney aimed to provide support behind her place in the GOP conference.
“Wyoming does not like it when outsiders come into our state and try to tell us what to do,” said the former Cheney staff and former state representative.
And beyond McCarthy’s lukewarm support, Cheney also has support from a number of high-profile members of the House GOP and the wider party.
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“Let’s get some truth on the record: @Liz_Cheney has a hell of a lot more backbone than most, and is a principled leader with a hard intellect,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said on Twitter. “She will continue to be a much-needed leader in the conference, with my full support. We cannot agree without tearing each other apart.”
Among those supporting Cheney are Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyo .; Reps Ken Buck, R-Colo., And Chip Roy, R-Texas, two prominent members of the House Freedom Caucus; high-profile freshman Nancy Mace, RS.C .; House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, R-La .; popular freshman representative Nicole Malliotakis, RN.Y., and more.
The House’s GOP conference will hold a meeting next week where there will likely be internal discussion and grievances over the decision of Cheney and nine other Republicans of the House to vote to accuse Trump of the role he played in the riot at the American Capitol. .
But it will take a longer process if members strive to remove Cheney as chairman of the conference. Trump Jr., indicated Thursday that Trump loyalists should take their time. He warned that if too many Trump-backed congressmen acted for Cheney’s place, she could retain her seat with the support of less than half of the conference.
“Let’s find exactly the opposite of her, and let’s give that person back in full,” Trump Jr. said. said during the Gaetz meeting. “But let’s not make that decision today. We have some time. Let’s find the right one, let’s not split this vote and inflate our chances of getting rid of a RINO.”
The accusation of Trump – and thus the saga of Cheney’s voice over accusation – began after the January 6 attack on a Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
On this Wednesday, January 6, 2021 file photos of supporters of former President Donald Trump the western wall of the American Capitol in Washington. The attack on the American Capitol by an angry crowd of Trump’s supporters shocked many Americans who thought such a violent assault by their countrymen was not possible. That prompted Trump’s eventual indictment a week later. (AP Photo / Jose Luis Magana, file)
Trump made false claims that he won the election for two months, gathered a large group of his supporters in DC on January 6 before Congress and Vice President Pence met to confirm President Biden’s victory, and they told to go to the American Capitol.
Trump never explicitly called for violence – in fact, he told his supporters to march “peacefully and patriotically.” But between his outspoken rhetoric about the fate of the country, comments from allies, including Rudy Giuliani calling for a ‘trial through a fight’, and the lack of response from Trump as soon as his supporters start attacking the Capitol, Trump initially condemned by many left and right.
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“The president of the United States has summoned this mob, gathered the mob and lit the flame of this attack. All that followed was to do. None of this would have happened without the president,” Cheney said in a statement. a statement said about her vote to Trump convicted. “The president could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He has not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
But very quickly, the GOP’s anger over the current president has cooled, culminating in the 45 Senate Republicans who voted this week that the indictment over Trump is unconstitutional now that he is out of office.
And because McCarthy is trying to ease Trump on Thursday, it appears that most of the GOP is not ready to divorce the former president – and that Trump intends to be very involved in the coming years with those who are ready, to ensure. to pass from his presidency was banned.
Fox Stein’s Paul Steinhauser and Associated Press contributed to this report.