Rival Cheney has sided with Trump’s election claims in the Republican leadership contest

Republicans challenged Liz Cheney to lead the party on Thursday with Donald Trump’s false claims that Donald Trump is questioning the 2020 election, a sign that loyalty to the former president is becoming a test of progress within the caucus.

Elise Stefanik, a 36-year-old New Yorker, is running for the seat of the next Republican conference in the House of Representatives because she refused to accept the claims that were stolen from her election amid calls to remove Cheney from office.

Trump on Wednesday accepted Stefan’s role, which would make her the oldest woman on the Capitol Hill party, calling her a “tough, smart communicator”. He attacked Cheney, “as a headless man who has no business in the leadership of the Republican party,” in a statement issued by the Save America political action committee.

Stefanik appeared on Thursday in a podcast dedicated to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and said he “fully” supports Republican efforts to monitor Arizona election results as Biden won the swing state in November. Trump and his allies have sought to question the interrogation despite several counts.

Trump pardoned Bannon Shortly before leaving the White House, federal prosecutors in New York accused the strategist of committing hundreds of thousands of frauds in favor of Trump.

“Transparency is a good thing,” Stefan told Bannon. “We need to address these election security issues.”

Cheney the chubby disappears he stressed the lasting impact Trump has had on the Republican party six months after losing the election to Joe Biden.

The daughter of a staunch neoconservative and former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, she has said she will not support Trump if he is re-elected to the White House in 2024.

He was indicted by a 54-year-old Republican from Wyoming Trump he left five dead in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and has since spoken out more than once against the former president, saying Republicans must accept election results.

After months of Republican support, Cheney is expected to be expelled from the leadership as a third-rate Republican as soon as next week.

Stefanik, largely in the rural district, covers much of the rural area of ​​upstate New York, and has campaigned openly to fill the job created by Cheney’s likely defenestration.

A Harvard University graduate who worked in the White House with George W Bush and then advised former home speaker Paul Ryan, Stefanik became a pro-Trump voice in the first impeachment probe he entered in 2019. Research he paid attention to the then president to get the Ukrainian president out of the dirt of Biden and his family.

Making a cover for Cheney, Stefanik told Bannon that the Republican party was “a single group and that meant working with the president,” referring to Trump, not Biden.

Cheney, on the other hand, has shown no sign of backing down, despite losing the support of Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, first and second home Republicans, respectively.

In one op-ed Cheney warned his party was “at a turning point” late in The Washington Post late Wednesday, adding that “Republicans must decide whether to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution.”

“He’s watching history. Our children are watching. We must be brave enough to uphold the basic principles that underpin and protect our freedom and our democratic process, “Cheney wrote.” I am committed to doing so, regardless of the short-term political consequences. “