WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) – A crisis in the Republican party is now headed for a showdown this week involving truth, consequences, leadership, and the man who still looms large over the GOP.
It’s a Republican purge set in motion. “It’s clear we need to make a change…” wrote leader Kevin McCarthy in a new letter to GOP lawmakers, formalizing a vote this Wednesday to expel the Republican party’s highest-ranking woman in House leadership, Liz Cheney.
Her transgression: breaking with Donald Trump, saying the former president incited the insurrection and lied about a stolen election.
McCarthy sealed Cheney’s fate Sunday when he publicly backed New York Republican Elise Stefanik, whose voting record is less conservative than Cheney’s.