We’ll see how long the media spotlight stays on her….
“I think it’s dangerous,” Cheney said in an interview with Jonathan Karl on ABC News’s “This Week” Sunday. “I think that we have to recognize how quickly things can unravel. We have to recognize what it means for the nation to have a former president who has not conceded, and who continues to suggest that our electoral system cannot function, cannot do the will of the people.”
Cheney was ousted Wednesday from her position as House conference chair after persistently criticizing Trump. Her GOP colleagues on Friday voted to replace her with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who has a more moderate voting record but who has been willing to indulge Trump’s baseless claims that the election was stolen — dubbed by Cheney and others as “the big lie.”…
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Cheney said she was supportive of the agreement House Republicans and Democrats had made on a bipartisan, 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack, noting that she was glad Democrats had rejected suggestions from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that the commission’s focus be diluted.
Cheney also further broke with McCarthy by saying she “wouldn’t be surprised” if he were subpoenaed as part of the Jan. 6 commission’s probe into the events surrounding the storming of the Capitol that day. McCarthy, who spoke to Trump on the phone as the insurrection was taking place, reportedly told colleagues about private conversations that he had with Trump during the day. But McCarthy has since publicly backed off his prior criticism of Trump’s handling of the riot.
“He absolutely should,” Cheney told Karl, when asked whether McCarthy should be willing to testify before the commission. “And I wouldn’t be surprised if he were subpoenaed. I think that he very clearly … said publicly that he’s got information about the president’s state of mind that day.”
The House is scheduled to vote on the commission next week….
CBS News Poll…
80% of Republicans agree with the removal of Liz Cheney from her leadership position.
Roughly equivalent to my conclusion ,based on some unscientific speculation , that 82% of Republicans remain staunch Trump supporters.
Oh that’s all in the “rear window” Jack! Stop beating that dead horse!
Loyalty to a Lying , corrupt and outer world egomaniac LOSER…..
Lotta Kool-Aid drinking…..
Bless the other 20%‼️
Discouraging details of the CBS News YouGov poll, by Anthony Salvanti and others:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-liz-cheney-opinion-poll/
There’s no way in heaven or hell at the moment to peel today’s GOP voters from Trump & Trumpism. (DSD)
Poll of Republicans:
Removing Liz Cheney from leadership:
80% agree
20% disagree
because she’s
not on message with party 69%
wrong about the 2020 election 57%
didn’t support Trump 52%
or because disloyalty (to whom or what?) will should? be punished* 34%
*summary wording of this last choice very ambiguous: I don’t know if the wording used in interviews was any clearer
GOP should follow Trump’s example on..
economic issues 89%
immigration issues 88%
leadership 80%
how to treat the media 77%
Republicans being loyal to Trump is:
important 66%
not important 33%
Republicans who believe it is very important for GOP officials to:
propose important legislation 73%
agree with you on economic policy 58%
agree with you on culture & values 50%
support claims of 2020 election fraud 37%
Is Joe Biden the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election?
Yes 33%
No 67%
A LOT of Kool-Aid?
I may be dog crazy but I still think Donald J. Trump is gonna be nothing but a guy who
Republicans woke up and found was a walking horror show that left them standing naked in the rain cone a year or two from now…
Also from the CBS YouGov poll among Republicans:
GOP strategy for winning elections should prioritize…
53% Message: get more voters with policies & ideas
47% Rules: push for changes in state voting rules
Poll details and original wording of questions:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mvnlBsfchzEiEFw6dy0yfmd05HsvNlxt/view
The other part of the Pwire snippet…..
A new Ipsos poll found that that 50% of Republicans believe former President Donald Trump should be the role model for the Republican party.
(But this could also be ominous news for Trump….50% is a lot lower than the 80% general support he has within the party…)
Crenshaw Says Republicans Can’t Boot Trump from Party
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) told NBC News that Republicans could not simply “excommunicate” former President Trump from its ranks, although he declined to say whether or not he believed Trump is the “legitimate leader of the Republican Party.”
Said Crenshaw: “These are complex human relationships that involve millions of people. And I have always said, look, I do not think Trump is the devil and I won’t say that. I don’t think he’s Jesus either, you know, I’m a rational human being about this.”
Republicans’ conflicting message: Embracing Trump election lie is key to prominence, just stop asking us about it
The Republican Party’s contorted response to Donald Trump’s false claim that the election was stolen was on stark display as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stood in the White House driveway.
McCarthy (R-Calif.) had helped engineer the ouster Wednesday of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as the No. 3 House Republican leader for saying former president Trump’s claim of a stolen election was a lie. Yet he insisted later that day, “I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.”
In fact, the majority of Republicans — spurred on by Trump and party leaders who for months have been spreading falsehoods and sowing doubts — say in polls that they still question the legitimacy of the election. Trump has continued to spread his lie, writing on his blog on Tuesday that he lost in “an election rigged and stolen from us.”
More…
Or it could simply be the well known fact that while many of his supporters find him personally objectionable (see Evangelicals) they back him anyway because he reflects their angry view of the world and the political system.
He certainly isn’t their “role model.” ( sort of a weird question anyway)
Please Remember….
Liz Cheney IS STILL a Republican….
Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
Liz Chaney refuses to connect the Big Lie to voter suppression laws in the states. There are no defenders of voting rights in the GOP.
Excellent journalism by
@jonathanvswan
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told “Axios on HBO” that she won’t support Democrats in their fight against the GOP’s push for more restrictive voting laws — a sign that she’ll be no hero to the resistance….
More @ Axios