Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Pushed back Wednesday against fellow Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, after Congressman for Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., The tallest woman in the house, defended for her. vote to accuse President Trump.
“With all due respect to Rep. Crenshaw, this is a minority view within the minority party,” Gaetz tweeted to Crenshaw.
Crenshaw earlier said Cheney has a ‘hell much more backbone than most’ and calls her a ‘principled leader’.
Cheney and nine other House Republicans voted with Democrats to condemn Trump on Wednesday for “inciting insurgency” after a crowd of his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6 in an unsuccessful attempt to certify the election of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College to stop over the president.
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(LR) Republican Representatives Matt Gaetz, Liz Cheney and Dan Crenshaw
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Cheney, the highest-ranking member of the GOP House who voted for the accusation, received calls from a handful of Republican colleagues to thank her from her leadership position over the vote.
The Wyoming congressman, who wrote on Tuesday “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” rejected the resignation calls.
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“I’m not going anywhere,” she told a reporter. “It’s a vote of conscience. It’s one where there are different opinions in our conference.”
Staff from Gaetz and Crenshaw did not immediately respond to a Fox News email.
Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche contributed to this report.