Posted on 11/20/2020 11:43:45 AM PST by RandFan
House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) at a Monday meeting with the House Freedom Caucus committed that she will not donate to an incumbent’s primary rival going forward, seeing to diffuse lingering tensions with conservatives.
Cheney discussed the need to unify the party ahead of the 2022 midterms during the meeting, which was also attended by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). All three laid out their case to remain in the House GOP’s leaders. House Republicans voted to keep the team on Tuesday.
Three sources in the room said Cheney’s commitment to not offer financial support to an incumbent’s challenger was a vow that would ease concerns among conservative lawmakers.
Friction between Cheney and conservative lawmakers emerged after a heated exchange during a closed-door conference meeting in July.
Critics of Cheney took aim at her leadership style, questioned her loyalty to President Trump and slammed her decision to donate to Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) primary opponent. Cheney later withdrew her endorsement of Todd McMurty and the her donation was returned after racist posts by McMurty on social media were uncovered.
One senior GOP source said there might have been a challenge of sorts to Cheney at Tuesday’s vote without her comments to the group.
The source said some members had “planned to seek a roll call vote on her election so some could vote present as a way to chastise her. They opted not to after her answer.”
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) told Cheney at the meeting that he appreciated her message of unity, but added “it’s important for us to know that you’re not going to preach that message and then turn around and invest in one of our opponents’ campaigns,” one source in the room told The Hill.
Cheney said she only donated to Massie’s opponent after President Trump tweeted he wanted the Kentucky Republican gone. Trump had been irked when Massie threatened to take steps to delay a House vote on a coronavirus relief package backed by the president in the spring.
Cheney then told the group that she apologized to Massie, assuring them she wouldn’t go after sitting House members and is focused on helping bring the party together to help take back control of the lower chamber in 2022.
Cheney has been at odds with Trump and some conservatives on several issues, including Trump’s support for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.
But a senior GOP aide said such tension have cooled.
“I think any of the animosity from July where a couple of our members got a little fiery about her involvement against Massie and her tweets about Trump has died down. She showed a willingness to work alongside us and did not shy away from any question she was asked,” the aide said.
One source familiar with the meeting said Cheney “made clear she will continue to speak out on national security policy and they all agreed there will be issues on which they disagree.” The Freedom Caucus extended an invitation for her to come back to future meetings to discuss national security.
Liz Cheney is playing Peace Maker? Well, I’ll be a Monkey’s Uncle!
Liz.....RINO Lincoln Project horse s***
Don’t like her or her father.
The GOPe is going to try and reassert themselves no matter what happens in the next few months.
Good ole boys wanna be good ole boys
It is very disheartening to see the lack of vocal support for Trump on the part of so many republicrats. They simply do not get it.
I would love to say we can bottle Trumpism and use it to hammer the RINO’s in primaries, but history shows it is unlikely to happen because the RNC is RINO Central. May we the voters not forget them.
How many other RINO Senator’s are playing along with the CIA & Dems to subvert the Trump win through the massive & documentable election fraud conspiracy?
She was involved with The Lincoln Project?!
If that’s true, she needs to be out on her butt.
Make peace with criminals who are encouraging our children to become queers and crossdressers? Never.
“They simply do not get it.”
..............or, maybe they do? How many secret societies have a luciferian stranglehold over the citadels of power across the US?
Trump’s legal team have an impeccable case....
....it is time for prayer to the God of the Bible.....We must call upon the Supreme Supreme Court if this country is to be preserved from the global socialist elites.
She is a lesbian, isn’t she?
i dont think she is involved but has many friends etc. tied to it
I think that is what wardamneagle may have meant?
It’s amazing to see the mass of people in this country just going around their daily lives as if nothing is about to happen. They are clueless.
LISTEN PEOPLE, be prepared for what is coming! The United States of America as we have known it for 245 years is going to end on January 20, 2021. Freedom or Communism?
The President and his lawyers alerted the nation yesterday that a communist foreign adversary interfered in our election. They very clearly, unambiguously said that Joe Biden did NOT win the election. That the vote was manipulated to damage the will of people in electing Donald J. Trump to a second term.
Do any of you really think that the President (and the American people who voted for him) are going to just sit back and allow a communist country to take over the USA by installing a puppet Joe Biden. NO F***ING WAY!
Hell is coming. We are not going to be the same country, either way. The two party system is going to end. The media is going to be shutdown. Martial Law is just around the corner. BE PREPARED!
That’s her sister.
That group makes my blood boil.
They should go on a hunting trip together...take a bunch of democrats with them.
Ooh, that’s bad. :^D
Get that evil neocon spawn out of the House leadership, before we can get her out of Congress altogether!
Bush League Republicans remain in control of the House delegation.
I wish there were a way to get some FREEPERS back that we’re truthful about Vice President Cheney during the 8 years and were kicked off. It’s sad that most of us supported him. I know I was a big idiot!!!!
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