“The women don t get the same slack that the men get,” former Rep. Barbara Comstock
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“They re on their knees for Trump and she s standing up for herself,” Comstock added. “And that s kind of an embarrassing thing if you re the guy on your knees.”
The pushback arrives as House Republicans pressured by Trump and dismayed by Cheney’s rebukes of him are charging ahead with plans to oust her as the head of the party conference. Because Cheney is the only woman in the top tiers of leadership, the emerging consensus is to replace her with another woman: Rep. Elise Stefanik