Representative Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Resisted Republican colleague Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, on Wednesday after Congressman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Deputy for her, the highest-ranking woman in the house vote to oust President Trump.
“With all due respect to Rep. Crenshaw, this is a minority view within the minority party,” Gaetz tweeted to Crenshaw.
Crenshaw said earlier that Cheney had “a lot more backbone than most” and called her a “principle leader”.
Cheney and nine other House Republicans voted along with Democrats to impeach Trump on Wednesday for “inciting insurrection” after a crowd of his supporters broke into the Capitol on January 6 in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent certification of victory President-elect Joe Biden at the electoral college on the president.
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(LR) Reps. Republicans Matt Gaetz, Liz Cheney and Dan Crenshaw
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Cheney, the most senior member of the Republican Party House to vote for impeachment, faced appeals from a handful of Republican colleagues to resign from her leadership role due to the vote.
The Wyoming Congresswoman, who wrote on Tuesday “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States in his office and his oath to the Constitution,” rejected requests for resignation.
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“I’m not going anywhere,” she told a reporter. “This is a vote of conscience. It is one in which there are different points of view in our conference.”
Gaetz and Crenshaw employees did not immediately respond to an e-mail from Fox News.
Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche contributed to this report.