Tag Archives: Liz Cheney

100+ GOP House Reps To Host Anti-Cheney Fundraiser

Politico reports: First House Republicans kicked Rep. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) out of party leadership. Now they’re trying to kick her out of Congress entirely. More than 100 House Republicans have signed on to host a fundraiser for Harriet Hageman, who is waging a primary challenge to Cheney in Wyoming. According to details about the event obtained by POLITICO, the …

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Cheney Floats “Enhanced Criminal Penalties” For Trump

“Certainly our first priority is to make recommendations. And we’re looking at things like do we need additional enhanced criminal penalties for the kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump, when he refused to tell the mob to go home after he had provoked that attack on the Capitol. “I have not learned a single …

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AP: Anti-Trump Republicans Mulling 2024 WH Bids

The Associated Press reports: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., are openly talking up her White House prospects. More than two years before the next presidential election, a shadow primary is already beginning …

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Trump Fails To End Crossover Voting In WY Primary

The Casper Star-Tribune reports: The Donald Trump-endorsed crossover voting bill died Tuesday in the Wyoming House after it was not considered by a legislative deadline. The bill aimed to end same-day party affiliation changes, meaning voters would not have been able to switch parties in roughly the three months prior to a primary. If the measure had become law, voters …

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House GOP Leaders Endorse Liz Cheney’s Challenger

NBC News reports: In a highly unusual move, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday endorsed Harriet Hageman, the Trump-backed candidate challenging Rep. Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Republican primary. “I am proud to endorse Harriet Hageman for Congress,” McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement tweeted by Hageman. “I look forward to welcoming Harriet to a Republican majority next Congress.” …

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WY GOP Bill Would Block Dems From Voting For Cheney

The Caspar Star-Tribune reports: Former President Donald Trump endorsed Thursday the latest legislative effort to end crossover voting in Wyoming. Senate File 97, “Change in party affiliation,” was filed recently by Sen. Bo Biteman, R-Ranchester. The bill would end same-day party affiliation change in Wyoming to prevent Democrats from voting in Republican primaries. The practice is commonly known as crossover …

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RNC Censures Kinzinger And Cheney For Opposing Violent Attempt To Overthrow Federal Government

The Washington Post reports: In an extraordinary rebuke, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution condemning Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who voted to impeach former president Donald Trump after the deadly insurrection. The resolution said that the behavior of Cheney and Kinzinger “has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican …

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Liz Cheney Blasts RNC Ahead Of Censure Vote: GOP Leaders Are “Willing Hostages” To An Insurrectionist

Via press release from Cheney’s campaign: Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) issued the following statement in response to the Republican National Committee’s anticipated vote to censure her. “The leaders of the Republican Party have made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election and suggests he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants, some of …

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GOP To Formally Condemn Cheney For Work On Riot Panel For “Persecuting Legitimate Political Discourse”

The Washington Post reports: Republican leaders forged an agreement this week to potentially fund a challenger to Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, and party members are expected to formally condemn her for her work on the Jan. 6 committee Friday, an unprecedented rebuke of an incumbent member of Congress. Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also worked behind the scenes …

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RNC To Debate Expelling Kinzinger And Cheney

The Washington Post reports: A prominent Trump ally is pushing the Republican Party to formally expel Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger at the party’s annual meeting this week in Salt Lake City, setting up a public showdown over the party’s direction. David Bossie, a two-time Trump campaign adviser who serves as a national committeeman from Maryland, submitted a resolution …

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Bush Donated Max To Pro-Impeachment Republicans

Politico reports: Former President George W. Bush contributed to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) reelection campaigns at the end of 2021, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday, backing up two of the most prominent Republicans who supported impeaching Donald Trump a year ago. Bush donated a maximum individual contribution of $5,800 to Cheney last October. …

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Cheney Greatly Outraises Trump-Backed Challenger

Axios reports: Key Trump-backed Republican challengers were heavily outraised by their Republican primary opponents late last year, newly filed financial reports show. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), more than quadrupled the fourth-quarter fundraising haul of her top primary opponent, fellow Republican Harriet Hageman. Cheney’s $2 million haul, her best-ever fundraising quarter, came as she spearheaded efforts to investigate Trump’s role in …

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Cheney Hits Back At Gingrich’s Threat To Jail Riot Panel

Mediaite reports: Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) shot back at Newt Gingrich for claiming they and the rest of the January 6 Committee might go to jail. “I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down,” Gingrich said. “And the wolves are going to find out that they’re now sheep …

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GOP Oath Keeper Leads Campaign To Unseat Cheney

The Daily Beast reports: Frank Eathorne, who was revealed in a leak last year to be one of 191 Wyoming-based members of the far-right militia group, was in Washington for protests on Jan. 6. But Eathorne is no rank-and-file fringe crank. He is the sitting chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party. That role has made him one of the more …

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Liz Cheney: Trump Is “At War With The Rule Of Law”

The Hill reports: “I think that that we’re in a situation where people have got to understand the danger of President Trump and the danger that he posed on that day,” Cheney said of the Capitol riots on Jan. 6 while appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “This is a man who has demonstrated that he is at war with …

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Cheney Fact-Checks Trump’s Latest Lie About Riot Panel

The New York Daily News reports: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is punching back hard at former President Trump as the dispute with the Jan. 6 committee over White House records heats up at the Supreme Court. The Republican rebel fact-checked Trump’s claim that the committee was backing down from its push to obtain the potentially incriminating trove of files, which …

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Ingraham Rants About “Lackeys” Cheney And Kinzinger

“Both publicly and privately, I said what I believe, that the breach at the Capitol on January 6th was a terrible thing. “Crimes were committed, some people were unfairly hounded and persecuted and prosecuted, but it was not an insurrection. To say anything different is beyond dishonest and ignores the fact of that day. “People like Liz Cheney will soon …

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Hannity Rages At Liz Cheney Over His Text Message

“Last night in a weak attempt to smear yours truly and presumably I guess President Trump, Congresswoman Cheney presented one of my text messages from January 6th to Mark Meadows. “Surprise, surprise, surprise: I said to Mark Meadows the exact same thing I was saying live on the radio at that time and on TV that night on January 6th …

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WY GOP Symbolically Votes Liz Cheney Out Of Party

The Casper Star-Tribune reports: Wyoming Republican leaders voted this weekend to no longer recognize Rep. Liz Cheney as a member of their party. The resolution, which does not strip Cheney of any tangible power, passed the Wyoming GOP Central Committee by a narrow vote of 31-29. The symbolic vote came after roughly nine county Republican parties voted to no longer …

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GOP Reps Savage Ted Cruz In Twitter “Slap Fight”

Mediaite reports: The online slap fight between Liz Cheney (R) and Ted Cruz (R) kept going on Saturday when Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) hopped into the fray with the Texas senator. As Cruz comes off of his war against Sesame Street’s attempts to promote public health, he wound up in a Twitter fight when he went after …

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