Cheney, a staunch Conservative, has received fierce criticism from Trump loyalists for her vote to accuse the populist former president, who is set to face a Senate prosecution trial next week.
Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is off to Wyoming on Jan. 28 to hold an anti-Cheney rally and lay with an abundance of insults in her. But the House’s minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, defended her during the closed session before the Republican caucus voted.
Cheney defended her vote in a statement after the state party requested.
“I am honored to represent the people of Wyoming in Congress and will always fight for the issues that are most important to our state. The most important of these is the defense of our Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees,” Cheney said.
“My vote of accusation has been forced by the oath I swore to the Constitution. Wyoming citizens know that this oath does not bend or yield to politics or bias. I will always fight for Wyoming values and stand up for our Western lifestyle, “she added.
Cheney is not the only Republican who has come under fire for inadequately supporting Trump in the eyes of a state party.
Republicans in Arizona on January 23 condemned the government, Doug Ducey and former Senator Jeff Flake, as well as Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain.
Ducey opposed Trump’s attempt to undermine the election results, and Flake and McCain endorsed Joe Biden for president instead of the Republican president.
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska is also being warned by the central committee of his state party after refusing to support Trump’s attempt to challenge election results. He responded to the state party committee with a scintillating video.
“Politics is not about the strange worship of one dude,” Sasse said. “The party can purify Trump skeptics. But I want to convince you that not only is the citizen cancer for the country, it’s just awful for our party. ”
The vote to condemn Cheney also comes as the GOP struggles with its identity in a political reality after Trump. McCarthy did not want to rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has voiced racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views, and promoted QAnon conspiracy theories, was punished before Democrats voted to kick her off the committee.
After Cheney voted to accuse Trump on charges of inciting the Capitol uprising on Jan. 6, the Wyoming Republican Party said he had never heard so much backlash from fellow Republicans. She now faces a pro-Trump primary challenger.
“The consensus is clear that those who reach out to the Party vehemently disagree with the decision and actions of Representative Cheney,” the party wrote in a statement on January 13.
After Trump was indicted, the Trump-backed chairman of the state party, Frank Eathorne, proposed to retire from the union.
Cheney outlined Trump in a statement in which she stated her decision to vote to accuse Trump.
“The President of the United States has gathered this crowd, gathered the crowd and lit the flame of this attack. All that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the president, ‘Cheney wrote on January 12.