Republicans do battle: Trump ally whips up Wyoming crowd against Liz Cheney
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Matt Gaetz flies to Cheney’s home state to hold rally and urge voters to oust her in primary after she backed impeachment
The Florida congressman Matt Gaetz outside the Wyoming state capitol in Cheyenne on Thursday. ‘Defeat Liz Cheney in this upcoming election,’ Gaetz said, ‘and Wyoming will bring Washington to its knees.’ Photograph: Michael Cummo/AP
Martin Pengelly in New York @MartinPengelly Fri 29 Jan 2021 17.53 GMT Last modified on Fri 29 Jan 2021 18.54 GMT
In a sign of the ferocity of the conflict in the Republican party, the Florida representative and Trump ultra-loyalist Matt Gaetz flew into Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Thursday to help whip up a crowd against Liz Cheney, the No 3 House Republican and member of GOP royalty who voted to impeach the former president for inciting the Capitol riot.
In the fight for control of the Republican party from now until the 2022 midterms, Trump and his backers currently seem to be winning, despite losing the White House. At the very least, Cheney can expect a stern primary challenge.
McCarthy said a “united conservative movement will strengthen the bonds of our citizens and uphold the freedoms our country was founded on”. But neither his country or his party is united and he is not taking strong action against extremist Republicans .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans .. who Democrats say are dangerously deepening national divisions, not least around the pro-Trump Capitol attack on 6 January.
“Or is thinking too generous a word for what they might be doing? It’s absolutely appalling, and I think the focus has to be on the Republican leadership of this House of Representatives for the disregard they have for the death of those children.”
Pelosi, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are among figures Greene has suggested should be killed. Saying “the enemy is within”, Pelosi also accused Republicans of making fellow representatives “concerned about members in the House of Representatives being a danger to them … we have members of Congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress.”
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In the New York Times on Friday .. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/political-violence-congress.html , Joanne B Freeman, a Yale historian and the author of The Field of Blood, a bestselling book about violence in Congress before the civil war, slammed the pursuit of “bullying as politics, the modus operandi of our departed chief”.
“Mass violence in Congress seemed possible in 1850,” Freeman wrote. “Now, 171 years later, it’s in the national mindscape once again. And for good reason.”
The president is charged with inciting an insurrectionist attack against the Capitol in which five people died, but 45 Republican senators voted against even holding a trial. The Trumpist far right has a grip on the party and its leaders are focusing only on regaining control of Congress.
Liz Cheney’s fate as a member of Republican House leadership is likely to be decided at a closed-door meeting next Wednesday. Her chances don’t look good.
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