It is reported that it took just 16 minutes for the Republicans in the US House of Representatives to remove Elizebeth Cheney from the ‘Conference Chair’, a status which gave her the No.3 position in the Republican Party’s leadership in the House. She was in the dock for being one of the 10 Republicans to have voted to impeach former US President Donald Trump; and for repeatedly calling him out for what is now called the ‘Big Lie’ that the 2020 election was stolen.
The Wednesday meeting of Republicans was clearly with Trump. Some of them booed Cheney. North Carolina’s Representative Madison Cawthorn tweeted: “Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye Liz Cheney”. The removal of Liz Cheney, daughter of the Gulf War hawk and former vice president Dick Cheney, is a watershed moment in American politics. It represents the complete and final control of Donald Trump over the post-election Republican Party.
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Liz Cheney and Miles Taylor refuse to accept the obvious truth: They lost their battle for the soul of the party years ago.
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As she fought to keep her job as the third-most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, Liz Cheney returned again and again to the same argument. The GOP had a choice: It could continue to embrace Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election, or it could follow a more principled path. “The Republican Party is at a turning point,” she wrote in a
Republicans joined in a letter: A Call For American Renewal
Signatures include former governors, ambassadors, and Republican Party chairmen
Demands party returns to a rational party, supports free minds, markets, people
Release comes a day after Republicans ousted Liz Cheney from leadership
They call for the nation to reimagine a party dedicated to our founding ideals
The signers attack disenfranchisement of voters and reject populism
Former President Trump attacked them as losers and RINOs
Comes as Cheney won t rule out run for president to stop unfit Trump
The letter, headlined: A Call For American Renewal, is an exploratory move toward forming a breakaway party, two of its organizers, including former White House staffer Miles Taylor (right) said.