IDP Conference Chair Liz Cheney
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The quip laughed reporters and highlighted the ongoing tension between the former president and the top GOP woman in Congress, who was one of ten Republicans who voted to accuse Trump of his role in the January 6 uprising.
Last week, Trump said he would “soon” endorse a pro-Trump primary challenger to “Crazy Liz Cheney.” Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, reacted in kind by saying she would not support Trump if he decided to run for president again in 2024.
Trump, who was searching in his Mar-a-Lago resort, is just a short flight away from Orlando, where Republicans hold their annual convention from April 25-27. But it looks like Trump will address Republicans. as during the GOP retreats in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and in West Virginia’s Greenbriar resort.
The retreat next week is sponsored by the nonprofit Congress Institute, which formally extends invitations to all speakers. But a spokesman for the institute said in an email on Tuesday: ‘We did not invite [Trump], and no one from the Republican leadership asked us to invite him. ‘
The Republican Party was at war with itself after the Capitol attack and in the post-Trump era. Cheney and a small Republican faction are calling on the party to reject Trump and move on, while a majority of GOP lawmakers embrace the former president, who remains a popular figure at the conservative base and flirt with a reunion against President Biden in 2024.
Some of Trump’s most committed loyalists in Congress, representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) And Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Discussed the launch of a pro-Trump ‘America First Caucus’. A draft policy platform for the caucus, reportedly set up by staff, called for the defense of America’s “unique Anglo – Saxon political traditions” and infrastructure projects that reflect “European architecture”.
The proposed caucus has been condemned by Republicans across the political spectrum, including House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and former speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Cheney spoke to reporters on Tuesday and summed up in her first comment on camera about the America First Caucus.
“Any form of nativism or racism or anti-Semitism – those things are evil,” Cheney said in the Capitol. “And it must be very clear, and we as Americans must be prepared to call it that.”