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- GOP Rep. Liz Cheney voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 Capitol riot.
- The Wyoming Republican Party voted to censure her following that vote.
- On Saturday, the party also voted to no longer recognize her as a Republican.
The Wyoming Republican Party will no longer recognize Rep. Liz Cheney as a member of their party, the Associated Press reported.
The party voted on Saturday 31-29 to no longer recognize Cheney, who has been critical of former President Donald Trump.
Republican officials in nine of the state’s counties had previously also voted to no longer recognize Cheney as a member of the GOP. The Casper Star-Tribune reported. The vote does not take any power from Cheney and is only symbolic.
“It’s laughable to suggest Liz is anything but a committed conservative Republican,” Cheney Spokesperson Jeremy Adler told Insider in a statement.
Adler added: “She is bound by her oath to the Constitution. Sadly, a portion of the Wyoming GOP leadership has abandoned that fundamental principle, and instead allowed themselves to be held hostage to the lies of a dangerous and irrational man.”
The Wyoming GOP central committee had previously voted in February to censure Cheney for her vote to impeach Trump following the January 6 Capitol riot.
The party said Cheney defied the will of the state’s residents, who overwhelmingly supported Trump.
“Does the voice of the people matter and if it does, does it only matter at the ballot box?” Joey Correnti, the GOP chairman in Carbon county said following Cheney’s censure, according to the Associated Press.
Cheney had defended her vote to impeach Trump and said she was “compelled by the oath” she “swore to the Constitution.”
The Star-Tribune reported that Cheney’s role as the vice chairwoman of the House select committee has also garnered criticism from her party.
“To further her own personal political agenda, Representative Liz Cheney has not only caused massive disruption, distraction, and division within the House Republican Conference, but has also willingly, happily, and energetically joined forced with and proudly pledged allegiance to democrat Speaker of the House Pelosi, as a means of serving her own personal interests while ignoring the interests, needs, and expectations of Wyoming Republicans,” the Wyoming GOP’s resolution to oust her as a Republican said, the Star-Tribune reported.
On Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz, a Trump loyalist, suggested Cheney should run as a Democrat in the 2024 presidential elections.
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