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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths as of each morning this week
: Monday, 577,045; Tuesday, 577,523; Wednesday, 578,500.
President Biden on Tuesday updated his months-long effort to encourage Americans to treat July 4 as a kind of COVID-19 liberation opportunity among those who long for baseball and barbecues, parades and patriotism, and something approaching normal life.
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Allies of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are already making calls on behalf of Rep. Elise Stefanik, seeking to lock down a replacement quickly to push Rep. Liz Cheney out of leadership. | Anna Moneymaker/Pool via Getty Images
GOP Leaders Preparing To Oust Cheney Over Clashes With Trump
House Republicans are growing more and more frustrated with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for speaking out against Donald Trump and may once again be plotting to remove her from her leadership role, according to multiple reports.
The latest Cheney comment that drew ire from Republicans came Monday, when she responded to a Trump statement in which he declared, The Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 will be, from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE!
Cheney responded to Trump s comment with a dig, tweeting: The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.
“There is no way that Liz will be conference chair by month’s end,” one key McCarthy ally told The Hill’s Scott Wong and Mike Lillis on Monday. “
When there is a vote, it won’t be a long conference [meeting]; it will be fast. Everyone knows the outcome.”
A second McCarthy ally added that the House minority leader is “as fed up as the rest of us” with her continued remarks about Trump, which many in the conference consider harmful to their 2022 efforts to flip the House. Cheney has maintained that the path back to the majority is by moving on from a party centric on one person and focusing on policy.