Conflicts inside the Republican Party are increasingly cast as debates over Trump and his party leadership role going forward, including the chance he will run for president again in 2024.
The most noticeable internal GOP battle in which Trump figures prominently is the rising vote to possibly replace Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, daughter of two-term former Vice President Dick Cheney, as chairwoman of the House Republican Conference.
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Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican, has been a vocal Trump critic since the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. She was one of 10 members of her party in that chamber to vote to impeach Trump over pushing the insurrection. She pushed back an effort to remove her from leadership over that vote earlier this year but has not settled disagreeing with Trump and his most passionate supporters since. Trump was acquitted of the charges of incitement of violence.
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Trump has been justly talkative about his increasing disappointment with Cheney. “Liz Cheney is a warmongering fool who has no business in Republican Party Leadership,” he said in a tweet-like statement this week issued through his political action committee. The former president has taken to calling the lawmaker “Warmonger Liz Cheney'' in the tradition of “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, “Low Energy Jeb” Bush, and “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz.
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But the dispute over Cheney, likely to be determined on Wednesday, is rarely the only Republican match viewed in Trump-centric terms. From the race for the GOP gubernatorial race in Virginia to the evaluation of how different sitting Republican governors have addressed the pandemic, everything is viewed through the prism of the businessman and reality TV star who spent the last four years in the Oval Office.
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Seldom that is because of Trump, a longtime supporter of the tabloid mentality that there is no such thing as bad advertising, himself. When Glenn Youngkin won the Republican nomination for governor of Virginia, Trump promptly endorsed him — allowing Democrats to cue up fresh attacks.
“Glenn Youngkin spent his campaign fawning all over Donald Trump, and now Trump has returned the favor by wholeheartedly endorsing him,” former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination this year, said in a statement. “Virginians have rejected Donald Trump’s hate, conspiracy theories, and dangerous lies at every turn, and we’re going to do it again to his hand-picked, extreme right-wing candidate Glenn Youngkin this November.”
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Philip Bump of the Washington Post wrote that the ascension of Rep. Elise Stefanik, the New York Republican who endorsed replacing Cheney in the leadership fight, shows that Trump is what the party and political conservatism are all about.
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