I know Democrats are in disarray and all, but this is something else:
First House Republicans kicked Rep. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) out of party leadership. Now they’re trying to kick her out of Congress entirely.
More than 100 House Republicans have signed on to host a fundraiser for Harriet Hageman, who is waging a primary challenge to Cheney in Wyoming. The figure amounts to roughly half of the entire House GOP. According to details about the event obtained by POLITICO, the list of hosts includes House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who succeeded Cheney as chair of the House GOP conference last May.
The event is slated to be held March 30 at the home of Republican fundraiser Jeff Miller, a longtime McCarthy adviser.
The Wyoming congresswoman has drawn the ire of Republicans for her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump and her continued outspoken criticism of him, as well as her decision to sit on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Trump endorsed Hageman last year.
Hageman’s support within the GOP conference crosses the ideological spectrum. The fundraiser has drawn the support of members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which is closely aligned with Trump, but it is also being hosted by members of the moderate Governance Group and Main Street Partnership.
While an invitation to the fundraiser lists McCarthy and Stefanik, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, is missing.
The Daily Caller was first to report on the existence of the fundraiser.
Hageman has raked in more than $1 million so far during the first fundraising quarter, which closes at the end of the month, according to a person familiar with the totals. The sum is considerable: During the fourth fundraising quarter of 2021, only three non-incumbents running for the House raised more than $1 million.
Obviously, Cheney doesn’t care. She decided that she was going to go another way some time back and had to know that this was possible. Still, this is pretty drastic. She has not repudiated any GOP dogma. She is still as right wing as ever. All she has done is repudiate Donald Trump’s behavior after the election of 2020, which was certifiably insane. (We are just now learning that he’s still telling people he wants them to “rescind” the election and put him back in office right now. If that’s not crazy, I don’t know what is.)
If she survives it will be a miracle but you’d love to see it. There’s no election that would more perfectly expose Trump’s weakness — and the perfidy of the pathetic GOP establishment.