- Trump does not have a faultless record on personnel decisions, he (and we) endured some very bad ones.
Liz Cheney is the House Republican Conference chair, the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership. She has exercised terrible judgement and frankly if she had integrity would resign. She is the third woman elected to that position after Deborah Pryce and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (maybe it is time the HRC should not consider the position now female only). Nevertheless there has been a lot of buzz, including from Trump, about replacing Cheney with Elise Stefanik of New York whose main virtue may be Woman and not a Trump antagonist ( if the following analysis is dependable.)
What is needed to replace Liz Cheney is a smart legislative operator devoted to moving an agenda, who has an understanding of the troops and some PR savvy, a team player who agrees with the agenda and who is personally deserving of confidence.
Erick Erickson is a Trump antagonist so take his points below with a few grains of salt. However, if substantially true and without compelling explanation, we do not see how Stefanik is even close to the go to person. Supporting Trump as a person is nice, but we are more concerned about the “Trump” agenda.
The GOP has a problem that is about to become a bigger problem.
Elise Stefanik, who President Trump signaled he supports as a replacement for Liz Cheney, has been on the wrong side of every major issue that defined the Trump presidency. Yet again, it appears a group of people sold the President on a candidate who he would not support if he had known her record. I hope he might reconsider. This is not the record of someone who should coordinate a united message for the House Republican Conference.
Stefanik voted against President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 — the signature piece of economic legislation that fired up the economy.
She co-sponsored a pathway for Dreamers and amnesty called the USA Act.
Stefanik not only voted against funding President Trump’s border wall, but also voted to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the wall and to override President Trump’s funding of the wall. In fact, Stefanik voted 6 times to fund the government without money for the border wall.
It’s not just taxes and the border wall.
Stefanik voted to oppose President Trump’s lawsuit to fight Obamacare. She voted to override President Trump’s ban on transgender troops. She voted for the far-left “Equality Act” that punishes faith-based organizations. She voted for the radical Climate Action Now Act that would cripple the American economy and forced President Trump to stay in the Paris Climate Accord. She voted to ban drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. She voted to override President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act as recently as 2020.
She even voted with Democrats against a Republican measure opposing the District of Columbia’s aggressive abortion law.
Why would the GOP put her into leadership? Republicans are going to replace Cheney. Ironically, Cheney voted for President Trump’s policies more than Stefanik. It would be a bad thing to replace Cheney with someone who has an even more moderate voting record.
Roger says: ” Supporting Trump as a person is nice, but we are more concerned about the “Trump” agenda.”
Erick Erickson, #NeverTrump Leader, Endorses Donald Trump in 2020. He says:
“We cannot have the Trump Administration policies without President Trump and there is much to like,” Erickson says while explaining his decision
Jon Levine | The Wrap/ February 11, 2019 @ 1:45 PM
And then he turned to support impeachment and even shooting certain Trump supporters on January 6th, one of whom was shot and killed. https://redstate.com/diary/wrongthinkradio/2021/01/06/erick-erickson-calls-for-pro-trump-protesters-to-be-shot-and-congress-to-hold-fascist-tribunal-n305525
He is a knee jerk jerk