The Wyoming Republican Party voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to censor the U.S. representative Liz Cheney for voting to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 riots at the Capitol.
Only eight of the Republican central committee of 74 Member States they opposed the censorship in a vote that did not proceed to a formal recount.
The censure document accused Cheney of voting for impeachment, even though the US House of Representatives did not offer Trump “a formal hearing or a fair trial.”
” We must honor President Trump. All President Trump did was convene a peaceful assembly and protest fair and controlled elections, “said Darin Smith, a Cheyenne lawyer who lost to Cheney in the 2016 Republican primaries of the US House of Representatives.” The Republican Party must warn her. ‘
Joey Correnti, chairman of the Republican Party in Carbon County where the vote of no confidence took place, said, “Does the voice of the people matter, and if so, does it only matter at the polling stations?”
Cheney has repeatedly said he voted to support impeachment over the riot that followed a rally in which Trump encouraged supporters to ditch lawmakers who are “no good, the ‘Liz Cheneys’ of the world.”
Trump is far from leading a peaceful demonstration ‘ called this multitude together, gathered the multitude, and kindled the flame of this attackCheney said in a statement prior to the Jan. 13 vote on the impeachment.
In a statement following the vote in the Republican Party, Cheney said she was honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for the issues that matter most to the state.
“The most important is to defend our constitution and the freedoms it guarantees. My vote for the impeachment was bound by my oath to the Constitution, ”Cheney said.
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Republican officials said they invited Cheney but she was not in attendance. At the front of the conference room was an empty chair labeled “Representative Cheney.”
The vote of no confidence was the ultimate setback for Cheney because they have joined nine Republican representatives and all Democrats in the United States House of Representatives to vote for impeachment. Just three months after winning a third term by nearly 70%, Cheney will face at least two Republican primary opponents by 2022.
Among them is Republican Senator Anthony Bouchard, a Cheyenne gun rights activist, who attended the rally, but not among the speakers. Smith has also said he is not sure whether he will appear in Congress again.
On January 28, Republican United States Representative Matt Gaetz from Florida led a rally against Cheney in front of the Wyoming Capitol. About 1,000 people took part, many of whom carried signs calling for Cheney’s deposition, although several supported him.
Cheney, however, remains the third member of the House Republican leadership, following a vote of 145-61 by House Republicans on Wednesday to retain her as chair of the conference committee.
Trump faces trial in the United States Senate on Tuesday for alleged incitement to insurgency when a crowd of supporters stormed through the Capitol and swept after the nearby rally led by Trump and close allies.
Opponents to the censorship were mainly from Casper, Wyoming’s second largest city, and the Jackson Hole area near Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
“Let’s oppose this infusion of left-wing cancellation culture to try to censor and get rid of anyone we disagree with,” said Alexander Muromcew of the Teton County Republican Party.
The momentum for censorship had been building for weeks when local Republicans in about a dozen of Wyoming’s 23 counties passed their own resolutions criticizing his vote for impeachment.
