Liz Cheney to Stay in Leadership Position After Bitter GOP Debate

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 17: Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol on December 17, 2019 in Washington, DC. House Republican leaders criticized their Democratic colleagues handling of the Impeachment Proceedings of President Donald Trump. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Liz Cheney

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House Republicans voted to keep Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney in her House leadership role, rebuffing an attempt to remove her after she voted with Democrats to impeach former President Donald Trump.

The internal GOP vote underscores the deep division in the Republican Party between those who are fiercely loyal to Trump and those who want to move past the former president and his persistent, controversial claims of system fraud in the November election.

The House impeached Trump Jan. 13 on a single charge of inciting an insurrection after a group including some of his supporters stormed the Capitol in a deadly attack. Cheney fiercely defended her decision to vote against Trump.

Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” Cheney said in a Jan. 12 statement. “Everything that followed was his doing.”

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