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And she emphasized that “I’m a constitutional conservative and I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump. History will be their judge. I will never stop fighting for our constitutional republic. No matter what.”
The resolution didn’t sit well with some of the party’s committee members.
Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel (center), at the conclusion of the RNC’s winter meeting, in Salt Lake City, Utah on Feb. 4, 2022.
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Bill Palatucci, a national committee member from New Jersey who opposed the resolution, told Fox News that “focusing on Liz Cheney at a national RNC meeting is distracting and counterproductive. We should be shooting at Democrats, not Republicans.”
Cheney, as she runs for reelection, is repeatedly being targeted by Trump. The former president has endorsed Wyoming lawyer Harriet Hageman, a former gubernatorial candidate who is challenging Cheney in the state’s August GOP primary. Trump and his allies have also cleared the GOP primary field of some of the other Republicans challenging Cheney.
Thanks to a move by the Wyoming GOP, the RNC may be able to indirectly help the effort to defeat Cheney as she runs for reelection
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Fox News confirmed that the Wyoming state GOP committee signed a rule and submitted it to the RNC, which allows the national party committee to give the state party support in the upcoming primary. Without the rule that was signed by the state party, the RNC would have been prevented from becoming involved in the contest.
Sources with the RNC stressed that the move came from the Wyoming GOP – which in November voted to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican – and was not initiated by McDaniel or other RNC officials.
A Cheney campaign spokesperson, responding, argued that Wyoming GOP Chair “Frank Eathorne and the Republican National Committee are trying to assert their will and take away the voice of the people of Wyoming before a single vote has even been cast.”
