27 Feb 2021
ORLANDO, Florida The “party of Liz Cheneys is over,” Donald Trump Jr. told Breitbart News this week during an exclusive interview with Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Poll after poll shows former President Trump leading by double digits in a hypothetical 2024 GOP primary. A recent Rasmussen survey spoke to that fact, showing that 72 percent of GOP voters want the Republican Party to be “more like former President Trump” rather than “more like the average GOP member of Congress.” Even if Trump chooses not to run, the post-election sentiment among the GOP base is the desire for a fighter, Boyle pointed out.
This past week, former President Donald Trump was acquitted for a second time after being impeached. This time, the charge was for inciting an insurrection. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had written an email to Republican colleagues Saturday giving them cover for voting not to convict. While a close call, I am persuaded that impeachments are a tool primarily of removal and we therefore lack jurisdiction, he said in his email.
After the acquittal vote Saturday, McConnell spoke from the floor of the Senate, and laid out his belief regarding Trump s part in the uprising. There is no question, none, said McConnell, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. He voted against conviction, he said, because Trump was no longer president, and therefore, in his view, no longer impeachable.
In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States despite being opposed by the establishment of the Republican Party. After four successful years as president, he received a record-setting 74.2 million votes. Obviously, the vast majority of Republicans strongly supported President Trump and approved of his performance in office. Polls showed that President Trump’s support level among Republicans reached 90 percent in 2020, an amazing feat considering the type of opposition he faced.
Not surprisingly, he did not receive this type of support from his enemies within the Democratic Party, the Deep State, the media, and the Republican Party establishment. These GOP opponents were powerful, although they did not represent a significant number of grassroots Republicans.
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) appears to be living in fairytale land now that she managed to keep her committee assignments after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. The lawmaker recently chimed in on the future of the Republican Party and its relationship with Trump.
During an appearance on
“Fox News Sunday,” she spoke with host Chris Wallace about the identity of the Republican Party in a post-Trump era. She urged GOP voters and officials in the party not to “look past” Trump’s alleged incitement of violence at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6. Her comments come just before the impeachment trial is scheduled to commence.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) just can’t seem to catch a break lately. Ever since she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after he had already left office, she has been the subject of criticism from high-profile people on the right. Now, she is under direct attack from some of her Republican colleagues in Congress. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) traveled to Wyoming last week to stage a rally protesting Cheney’s vote.
“There’s basically two things that Liz Cheney has done in the United States Congress: frustrate the agenda of President Trump and sell out to the forever war machine,” Gaetz declared in front of a crowd of 1,000 people who congregated at the steps of the Wyoming state Capitol building on Thursday.