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Liz Cheney (center) with Donald Trump (November 2019)
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Liz Cheney is high up in the Republican Party's power structure.
Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter is number three in the Republican rankings in the House of Representatives.
Your word has a certain weight, which also applies to your latest statements about ex-President Donald Trump, as reported by the US broadcaster CNN, among others.
Cheney wrote on Twitter on Monday: “The 2020 election was not stolen.
Anyone who claims this is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the law and poisoning our democracy. "
In doing so, she responded directly to a message from Trump, also on Monday: "The falsified presidential election of 2020 will be known from this day on as THE BIG LIE." With these baseless claims, Trump repeatedly reached large parts of the Republican electorate - and his own Political party.
Since the devastating defeat in the elections, there has been a bitter dispute in their ranks over the direction.
The Trump loyalists want a continuation of his course and cheerfully use the election fraud fairy tales.
The other side, represented by Liz Cheney among others, wants to lead the party away from the extreme right.
She had recently criticized Trump repeatedly and was one of the few in the party to vote for impeachment proceedings against the ex-president.
Can Cheney win the power struggle?
Internal calls for Cheney to be removed from the leadership of the Republicans in the House of Representatives are growing louder.
She had clearly won a vote on it in February.
But now the pressure is growing.
CNN quotes anonymous sources that Kevin McCarthy is "angry" with Cheney.
This is the minority leader in the house and could push a new vote on Cheney's future.
In February he had stood by her side.
The dispute over the direction of the party has not yet been decided.
But time is of the essence if the Republicans want a chance to win back the house in the 2022 midterm elections.
So far, the Democrats hold a slim majority there.
In elections in the middle of a presidential term, however, the tendency is often more in the direction of the opposition.
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