Cheney Wins Resounding Leadership Ballot After Facing Opposition From Trump Supporters Over Impeachment Vote

On Wednesday morning, Florida GOP congressman Matt Gaetz said on Steve Bannon’s podcast that a majority of House Republicans were ready to kick Wyoming representative Liz Cheney out of House GOP leadership because she voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the January 6 Capitol riot.

“My concern is that though today we have the votes to remove Liz Cheney, somehow the establishment’s going to find a way to kick the question, avoid a vote,” said Gaetz, who had flown to Wyoming last week to hold an anti-Cheney rally.

Hours later, House Republicans held the vote that Gaetz had been certain he and other Trump diehards in the GOP caucus were going to win.

Cheney won, and it wasn’t even close: When the secret ballots had been counted, 145 House Republicans voted to keep Cheney in her post, while 61 voted to oust her, and one voted present

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