Cheney set to be face of anti-Trump GOP
By Scott Wong and Mike Lillis - 05/11/21 06:37 PM EDT
When Republicans vote Wednesday to expel House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney from the No. 3 leadership post, it will cement the Wyoming Republican and political scion as the face of the anti-Trump movement in the party.
What remains unclear is whether her apostasy leads to a political cul-de-sac or becomes the launching pad to a more prominent role within a Republican Party that’s still grappling with its identity in a post-Trump Washington.
Until now, that splintered-Never Trump faction has had no apparent leader. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the 2008 presidential nominee who repeatedly clashed with former President Trump, died in 2018. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R), the centrist Alaskan, and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), the party’s 2012 standard-bearer, both backed Trump’s impeachment this year but don’t lean into every Trump controversy.
Other vocal Trump critics such as Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) don’t have the stature or national name ID.
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