U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, under fire and with her approval rating among the folks back home dropping, has drawn what will likely be the first of many opponents in the next GOP primary.
The No. 3 Republican in the GOP House leadership, Cheney is under fire for her vote to impeach former President Donald J. Trump, a largely partisan effort launched by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, after the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Democrats and some Republicans have repeatedly referred to the riot as an attempted “insurrection” prompted by Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. The objective of the rioters, some say, was to disrupt and perhaps force Congress to suspend that day’s counting of the electoral college ballots as prescribed by the U.S. Constitution and to prevent Joe Biden from being officially declared president-elect.
Cheney has drawn heat for her vote to affirm the charges against Trump and for insisting it was, for her and for all Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives a “matter of conscience” that permitted members to cast aside any partisan allegiances by which they might feel bound.
Taking on Cheney is Wyoming State Rep. Chuck Gray, a Republican who announced his intentions on social media.
“It’s time for a leader who actually listens to the hard-working people of Wyoming, and not to the D.C elitists,” Gray tweeted. “Join me on my journey as I seek the Republican nomination for the United States Congress.”
In February, the Wyoming Republican Party voted overwhelmingly to censure Cheney with only eight of the 74-member state GOP’s central committee openly opposing the punishment in a process that did not conclude with a formal vote. An effort by GOP House conservatives to remove Cheney from her party leadership post failed 145-61.
Gray has repeatedly criticized Cheney’s vote to impeach Trump and accused her of taking positions that were “nothing more than a stepping stone” to higher office. “Well, not anymore,” he said. “Wyoming agrees with President Trump” who, during his recent speech to the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference called Cheney out by name and said he hoped she would be defeated.
The subject of Trump’s speech caused some friction between Cheney and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who told reporters at a press availability he thought the former president should speak to the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservative political activists. Cheney disagreed, saying she did not believe the former president “should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.”
Cheney, who was first elected to the House in 2016, has not yet said whether she will be a candidate for reelection in 2022. Her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, held the seat she now occupies from January 1979 until 1989 – when former President George H.W. Bush nominated him to be U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Peter Roff is a former U.S. News & World Report contributing editor now affiliated with several Washington, D.C. public policy organizations. He appears regularly as a commentator on the One America News network. Reach him by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @PeterRoff.
Peter Roff
Peter Roff is affiliated with several Washington, D.C. public policy organizations and is a former U.S. News and World Report contributing editor who appears regularly as a commentator on the One America News network. He can be reached by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @PeterRoff.
I don’t believe that Cheney will be a candidate again whether she runs or not. Her goose is cooked.
How much did she get from China ?
As well it should be
I agree
She is a communist, just like all the left and many on the right. Anyone else smell the approach of another civil war? It seems since the left has antifa, blm, fools, and morons (or the fbi, doj) communists, we will have to reset the country. I hope and pray to GOD that the MILITARY STAYS TRUE TO THEIR OATHS, and removes our enemies. We must also engage the domestic enemies of our Country.
I would hope we can change things at the ballot box and not with an ammo box.
I really don’t give a F–k either way , I am old and I have served in the military was ready to die then and I’m ready to die now .
Hopefully it won’t come to that. Even democrats are now disillusioned with numb nuts. They realize…now…that he’s just another globalist parasite selling us down the river. ‘Makes you wonder how much we were worth.
I dunno, the way things are going, we may need to employ the latter. Regimes don’t relinquish power by any statute; they’re removed by force.
Convention of States: gives the power to the people to get state legislators to make amendments to the Constitution and have states ratify amendments without voting from House or Senate. A way of secession without war.
I have lost confidence in the military. They had opportunity to arrest all the Commiecrats at the fake inauguration of the dementia puppet!
That is not their job, we don’t need a military insurrection that usually follows with a military government. No thanks, I’ll stick with the ballot box and hopefully honest elections next time.
Seems the lefties are enacting legislation to ensure THEY have fair elections for themselves from here on out. They’re going to leave the patriots no other choice but armed conflict, or we can just surrender. Not many options at this point. A future republican could get 75% of the popular vote and still lose according to their fair election rules. They’re in the drivers seat for at least 2 more years.
The term is “Disenfranchisement”.
If we do not get fair elections then we should look into the Convention of States, Article 5 of the Constitution. It gives people power to get amendments to Constitution via state legislators and then the states ratify the amendments without voting from the House and Senate. It is a way of secession without civil war. Get all the red states together.
What’s doubly concerning is that the MILITARY has lost confidence in their leaders, particularly in Washington. Morale among our troops is sadly lacking, and under this new regime, they’ll be regimented with social engineered speech protocols to the point where they’ll need tape over their mouths to prevent them from uttering ‘unapproved’ sentiments. Life inside the perimeter fence was tough enough when there weren’t democrats parsing our observations. Now it’s going to be a lifelike imitation of Animal Farm.
I hope it can be settled without a war, but I am losing hope. With HR1 passing, it isn’t likely that the dems will listen to anything. They are pushing their radical agenda thru as fast as they can to destroy our country. They are encouraging and helping illegals invade our country! It seems everything they do should be considered unconstitutional. The president does not have the authority to write laws either – much less thru executive orders! When will the lawsuits start? Texas is finally standing up, but more states need to stand with Texas. The supreme court isn’t worth much at this point either. What happened to those “constitutionalist” that Trump nominated? They sure turned on the country quickly!
None of these RINO’s vote the way their people want them to do. I wonder why they keep electing them
Wonder how Liz felt when the government cleared Trump from inciting the riot at the capital plus hearing that Trump recommended that 10,000 National Guards be called to keep peace just in case. Please remember that Pelosi did not want that as it would “Look Bad”. Liz should drop out of the Republican party and join the Left since she seems to support them better than the US citizens !
Liz Cheney’s political career is SO OVER!!!!
Liz Chaney, just like her husband, is a democrat who ran as a republican to infiltrate the republican party to obstruct keeping America safe, to obstruct the Constitution, to destroy our country and to make sure the communist atheist democrat UN globalization new world order happens on schedule. They HAVE to destroy our country from within, they HAVE to divide us, they HAVE to indoctrinate our kids to embrace communism and to hate America, they HAVE to attack white people to shame and intimidate them so they will hate themselves to the point of surrendering to them so we will destroy ourselves and our country FOR THEM.
Cheney said that she was voting her “conscience”? Well the people of her Wyoming district will also vote their conscience when it comes time to decide who represents them. Do they want a “legacy” politician who truly does not care what the people back home think? Or do they want someone who believes in putting the will of their constituents ahead of what they feel?
Great response! 🙏🇺🇸🙏
Adios Lizzy…..maybe you can get a job on “THE VIEW” as another leftist.
Going to The View is probably what she will do, too. Using mainstream media to articulate their poisonous word weave hatred for our country, and hatred for our citizens, is their most powerful propaganda platform. Our citizens are not taught to “think”, they are taught to obey. If these communists can’t destroy us from within our own government’s highest offices, using the mainstream media to destroy us is just as useful to them. This is classic communist Nazi tactic, infiltrate to divide, infiltrate to collect information on what the enemy is doing, and to feed it to headquarters… which is the communist democrat party mafia. RINO is the name, but it goes much deeper, because they are communists who hate our country, who want to take our country, who hate God, who hate our citizens, and who want to take us down for the communists and atheists for the globalists UN new world order, who China pays and runs. You know, just like they run “traitor Joe”, and the democrat party.
I would move to Wyoming to vote against her!!!
she picked the wrong side.
Toss her in the trash. That’s what you do with trash !
Poor ole Liz. Well, that is what happens to traitors!!! Goodbye Liz, It HASN’T been nice knowing you!!!
Cheney needs to find another job with her partner some where else other than Washington.
I would agree that she should not ever offer her perspective again as a Republican, she should take her RINO thoughts and beliefs to the DEMONCRATIC side of her beliefs. People like her have no chance to ever offer their voice as a Republican. You do not deserve the honor of being called Republican Congressional Member, you have betrayed your Oath of Office. First off, I will never accept Joe Biden as the President of these United States of America. You and the DEMONCRATS must not be aware of what WE THE PEOPLE, feel and believe. There are nearly 75 million of us who have been totally DISENFRANCHISED of our Voice, our Vote, because various judges and our Supreme Court, and various state officials that have been voted or appointed into office have basically stated that millions of ILLEGAL votes are more important than we the true legal citizens, you know the real “TaxPayers”. If you do not believe that, then give Donald Trump and his staff the opportunity to offer such proof to an open and free venue and allow our Voices to be heard. That is our Constitutional Right, that WE THE PEOPLE are the true voice of these United States of America. Not this DEMONCRAT corrupt form of politics that is being forced down upon us now. I believe that there are “True American Democrats, that believe in our Constitution, that believe that WE THE PEOPLE are the reason that they have taken their OATH of Office, well now is there chance to prove it. LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD, RECOUNT THE TRUE VOTES NOW.
I am a lifelong Wyoming resident. I can say with very high confidence Liz Cheney’s political carrer representing Wyoming is done. She is burnt toast in Wyoming. Liz Cheney is no conservative, and she is not from Wyoming. Liz Cheney does not have a conservative bone in her body. She would probably jump off a bridge if Pelosi told her too.
GOOD, another RINO GETTING SHOT DOWN! SHE RUNS ON HER FAMILY NAME ONLY AND THAT MEANS NO GOOD!
Hopefully we don’t get so many challengers that she drops out with the most votes. That’s exactly how Hitler won. Just saying.
I hope that Republican electors can destroyed her definitively. Stop.
The corrupt satanic Nazi democrat Cheney reign has come to an end!
Good.
My hope is that elections can be done without major fraud…but my hopes aren’t very high. Trump tried to shine a light on it and was detoured from every direction…even many Republicans tucked tail and ran….without this…we are done….especially if this HR1 bill gets passed…I don’t even think the Georgia elections were legit….but no one even hardly squawked. Guess everyone is just getting use to it…..sad.
In the military there is a saying: Don’t poop in your mess kit ….. well …. Cheney took a HUGE dump in her mess kit and now she has to eat the fruit of her labors…….
Why is Cheney number THREE in Republican leadership…
“Cheney, who was first elected to the House in 2016”
First elected 4 years ago and is already #3???
Well, not being from Wyoming it’s difficult to criticize Cheney, it could come back to haunt me but that’s ok with me. Here’s what I think, she should quit her job before one of these guys are gonna take it away. LOL
The country we live in is no longer America although it retains the name just as many countries that have changed drastically retained their names -eg. Cuba, China, Iran. We live in a post-American high-tech banana republic where corruption is the rule not the exception. There should be an eruption within the social and political environment, whether that be a civil war, a coup or massive civil unrest. The Biden regime is evil, dishonest and self-preserving. Washington is a much deeper swamp than even President Trump first thought. It is more like a sewer populated by mostly vermin. The media is significantly evil and propagandistic and little more than Democratic loudspeakers.