Republican House Speaker Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Said she will remain in office and in her position as one of the most senior Republicans in Congress. despite opposition after his vote to impeach former President Donald Trump.
After House Republicans voted not to remove Cheney from his leadership position, the Wyoming Republican Party censored her on Saturday and asked her to resign. On Sunday, Cheney made it clear that he has no plans to do so.
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“I’m not,” said Cheney to “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “Look, I think people across Wyoming understand and recognize that our most important duty is to the Constitution. And as I explained and will continue to explain to supporters across the state, voters across the state, the oath that I made the Constitution forced me to vote for impeachment, and it does not lean towards partisanship, it does not lean towards political pressure, it is the most important oath we take ”.
Cheney continued to criticize her state party for its censorship, accusing them of believing conspiracy theories about the January 6 election and Capitol rebellion that she says are not true.
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“Well, I think you have to read the language of censorship,” said Cheney. “People in the party are wrong, they believe that BLM and Antifa were behind what happened here on Capitol. This is simply not the case, it is not true. And we’re going to have a lot of work to do. People were deceived. The extent to which the president, President Trump, in the months before January 6, spread the idea that the election was stolen or that the election was rigged was a lie. And people need to understand that. “
Cheney asked the GOP to be honest about the election so that it can regain power in next year’s midterm elections and the 2024 presidential race.
“We need to make sure that we, as Republicans, are the party of truth and that we are being honest about what really happened in 2020, so that we have a chance to win in 2022 and win back the White House in 2024,” she said.
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When asked if she would vote to condemn Trump if she were in the Senate, Cheney said he would listen to the evidence and testimonies. Still, she had strong words for Trump, accusing him of putting himself at the head of his country.
“The biggest threat to our republic is a president who would put his own interests above the Constitution, above the national interest. And we had a situation where President Trump claimed for months that the election was stolen and the apparently defined one about to do everything that I could to steal it.