Live updates: Gaetz takes down Cheney after the leading House Republican voted for impeachment

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, one of former President Trump’s main supporters in Congress, held a rally on Thursday in Wyoming to attack the only member of the state chamber, Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Gaetz, in front of a noisy crowd gathered on the steps of the Wyoming state capitol, delivered a populist speech while criticizing Cheney repeatedly as a member of the Washington government, “both political parties have come together to screw our fellow citizens for generations.”

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Cheney, the House’s third Republican in the lead, was one of 10 Republicans who joined all 222 House Democrats in the vote to impeach the president for inciting the January 6 uprising in the U.S. Capitol.

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