“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
“I am much happier with Donald Trump off the air, off Facebook. I don’t like having to get up every morning and go through what he’s done. I think he poses a lot of risk,” she said in an interview with The Washington Post Live.
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Asked if Trump should now be treated as an “ordinary American” by social media companies now that he’s out of office, Warren said: “He poses much more risk than an ordinary American.”
“He spreads lies,” she said, referring to Trump’s baseless claims that President Biden
“Indeed, he is now forcing, evidently, everybody else in the Republican Party to agree to say the lie out loud. He spreads misinformation. He is truly a danger to our democracy,” she added.
My vision is to run with support from the president [Trump] and his coalition of voters, which was the highest number of votes ever won by a Republican nominee, Stefanik reportedly told Bannon on his War Room podcast on Thursday.
“This is also about being one team. And I’m committed to being a voice and sending a clear message that we are one team, and that means working with the president and working with all of our excellent Republican members of Congress.”
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Stefanik has emerged as the likely successor to Rep. Liz Cheney
Cheney has come under criticism from former President Trump
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will likely be voted off the House Republican Leadership. Her crime: acknowledging the reality that Trump lost the election. The Republican Party is no longer a conservative party. It is an anti-democratic cult pushing the Big Lie and conspiracy theories. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 6, 2021
Cheney is going through a public rift with her party after being one of the few Republicans to show criticism toward Trump. Cheney has repeatedly gone after the former president over his various remarks arguing the election was stolen from him.
Trump lost the election to Biden and there has been no evidence of widespread fraud, despite his repeated protests.
Trump more than three months out of office remains the dominant force within GOP politics and is willing to try to sink fellow Republicans heading into 2022.
That’s left Republicans divided into largely three camps: Flatter Trump, try to ignore Trump or, increasingly rarely, fight Trump, none of which unite a fractured party.
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Cheney’s embrace of the third option is not only highlighting her odd-woman-out status on Capitol Hill, but putting renewed focus on those larger divisions.
“There is an overwhelming need to please Trump … and yet that is felt more in the House than in the Senate,” said Doug Heye, a GOP strategist and former House leadership aide, about the differences in strategy. “That’s a big part of it.”