- The Wyoming GOP voted Saturday to rep. Liz Cheney to minag.
- Cheney and 9 other Republicans of the House voted on January 13 to accuse President Donald Trump.
- “My vote to accuse was forced by the oath I swore to the Constitution,” Cheney said Saturday.
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The Republican Wyoming party on Saturday rep. Liz Cheney, the third highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, condemned her January 13 vote to accuse President Donald Trump.
Cheney was one of ten Republicans in the House who voted with Democrats to accuse Trump of handling the January 6 uprising.
Wyoming Republicans argued that Cheney ignored the will of Wyoming residents, who overwhelmingly supported Trump when he voted to accuse the president.
“Does the voice of the people matter, and does it only matter at the ballot box?” according to the Associated Press, Joey Correnti, the GOP chairman in Carbon County.
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Cheney defended in a statement following the abuse vote her decision to accuse Trump. She said she will continue to fight for key issues for Wyoming.
“The most important of these is the defense of our Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees. My vote to accuse was forced by the oath I swore to the Constitution,” she said, according to the Associated Press.
Cheney is not the only Republican in the House to face a setback because he voted to accuse Trump. Last Saturday, the South Carolina GOP voted for the same reason to disrespect Representative Tom Rice.
Cheney also recently faced a failed attempt by some Republicans from the House to oust her from her position as chair of the conference committee. An overwhelming 145 GOPers voted to retain her, while only 61 wanted to remove her.