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Cheney blasts Scalise for refusing to say Biden legitimately won election
The Hill ^ | 10/10/2021 | JOSEPH CHOI

Posted on 10/10/2021 9:11:24 AM PDT by American Number 181269513

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) blasted House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) after he refused to say if he believed the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" from former President Trump.

Earlier on Sunday, Scalise was pressed by "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace on whether he believed the 2020 election had legitimately been won by President Biden. Scalise refused to directly answer the question, repeatedly pointing to Constitutional rules and states' laws on elections.

"Millions of Americans have been sold a fraud that the election was stolen. Republicans have a duty to tell the American people that this is not true. Perpetuating the Big Lie is an attack on the core of our constitutional republic," Cheney tweeted.

Millions of Americans have been sold a fraud that the election was stolen. Republicans have a duty to tell the American people that this is not true. Perpetuating the Big Lie is an attack on the core of our constitutional republic. https://t.co/I0bgEIdJrU

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) October 10, 2021 Cheney's rejection of the so-called "big lie" has alienated her from much of the GOP. Last month, Cheney was named as vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol at the beginning of this year.

She previously slammed Trump for perpetuating claims of a stolen election, saying those who embrace these claims were “poisoning our democratic system.”

"The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system," she tweeted back in May.

While appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Scalise repeatedly refused to respond to questioning on if he believed the election was stolen. When Wallace said he took his side-stepped answers as an acceptance of the "big lie," Scalise did not refute this assessment.

Scalise also refused to say whether he would vote to hold Trump advisers who resist subpoenas in contempt of Congress. Trump has reportedly told former aides to resist subpoenas from the Jan. 6 panel that Cheney sits on.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: fatliz; lizcheney; louisiana; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; stevescalise; wyoming
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To: American Number 181269513

It does not matter what jackass Cheney has to say. The people here in this country are aware of who won and who cheated.


81 posted on 10/10/2021 11:40:41 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: American Number 181269513

I have scrolled down first page and all I see are the dems or dems lite and how they are doing dirt to the other side. white, supremist, conservatives, Trump.. all the dirt they can imagine in their evil minds.

Where are the republicans attacking??? don’t have to tell me... lazy bums who avoids confrontation and have no fight even for this country.. or for truth.. or for what is the right thing to do!!!

there’s not much anyone can do to move them to fight... writing or calling... sorry, it does not work.
now, if the motorcycle gang rode into Washington to join the thousands already in the streets demanding action... that might work.. but where do ya get thousands to take to the streets...

I have served my time.. so don’t say you go.. I would if I could.. it’s past for me... and how I wish I still could.

But I go from sadness to anger over the nutbags trying to destroy my country!


82 posted on 10/10/2021 11:49:39 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: American Number 181269513

Too bad Liz doesn’t direct as much anger and animus toward the Dems and OBiden. She’s a one-trick pony.


83 posted on 10/10/2021 11:59:08 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Does so

No it wasn’t.


84 posted on 10/10/2021 12:56:52 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: American Number 181269513

Should elections be audited to make sure our democracy is safe? I think so.


85 posted on 10/10/2021 1:09:32 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: American Number 181269513

No investigation, no certainty. No certainty, no legitimacy.


86 posted on 10/10/2021 1:12:19 PM PDT by Rowdyone
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To: American Number 181269513

When Cheney loses in Wyoming’s Midterm Election, will she then claim that the election was “illegitimate?”


87 posted on 10/10/2021 1:28:42 PM PDT by CDB ("Critical Race Theory" is the best." "I use it all the time"--Adolf Hitler's secret e-mails)
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To: rbg81

When DJT called him “low-energy Jeb” during the debates, I nearly spewed a mouth full of diet Shasta.


88 posted on 10/10/2021 1:33:24 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: American Number 181269513
Can't wait for Cheney to be gone. More than half the country knows the big lie is that the election was won fair and square.

Cheney is a big fat liar and she will be toast after the election next year.

89 posted on 10/10/2021 2:01:03 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business.)
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To: TakebackGOP
Read the above.

I read it here...

90 posted on 10/10/2021 4:33:22 PM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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To: TakebackGOP
Read # 71.

I read it here...

91 posted on 10/10/2021 4:35:19 PM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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To: Eddie01

Lol, I just heard that song on my way home from work Friday (yeah, I belted it out). I wondered how many years it’s been since the last time I heard it. Probably nearly a decade. Two days later you’ve brought it to my mind again. That’s crazy.

Liz sucks; I definitely like Jane better.


92 posted on 10/10/2021 5:05:43 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: American Number 181269513

I don’t remember all these liberals getting hot and bothered when Hillary Clinton said the 2016 presidential election was stolen by Russia and the Succubus continues to say the same thing to this day.


93 posted on 10/10/2021 5:31:37 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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