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Republican Congresswoman Voted out of Leadership Position

Frederica Freyberg:

Now to the U.S. Capitol, where House Republicans voted to remove Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her conference leadership position. Cheney has become more and more outspoken against former President Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Wisconsin Democratic Representative Mark Pocan claimed the move was a sign of a party in disarray.

Mark Pocan:

They got to figure out what they are and they don’t know what the hell they are right now. That’s why you’ll take someone like Liz Cheney, who by no stretch of the imagination is someone that she and I have very much in common ideologically, and they would throw her out for someone with a more liberal voting record which is a factual thing you can look at simply because she didn’t continue to kiss the ring of Donald Trump. That’s a cult. That’s not a political party.

Frederica Freyberg:

All five Wisconsin House Republicans voted to remove Representative Cheney from her leadership post. Congressman Mike Gallagher who had rejected a previous attempt to end Cheney’s position said in a statement, “House Democrats under Speaker Pelosi have been ruthless in advancing their radical progressive agenda and Representative Cheney can no longer unify the House Republican conference in opposition to that agenda. We need to take back the House in 2022 and permanently retire Pelosi.”