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BREAKING: Liz Cheney officially ousted as GOP conference chair

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The House Republicans have officially ousted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her position as GOP Conference Chair with a voice vote Wednesday.

Cheney addressed reporters that were waiting outside the room where the vote took place. She told them she did not feel betrayed by her party because of the vote.

However she doubled down on her disdain for former President Trump, telling reporters she will fight against his reelection. “I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” Cheney said.

According to a statement Wednesday morning, Trump was looking forward to her removal, calling it “a great opportunity.” “As a representative of the Great State of Wyoming, Liz Cheney is bad for our Country and bad for herself,” Trump wrote on his blog. “Almost everyone in the Republican Party, including 90% of Wyoming, looks forward to her ouster—and that includes me!”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) echoed Trump’s statement following the vote. Gaetz called the vote “the right decision.”

However Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) disagreed, calling the vote “a flashing red danger sign for our democracy.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) also disagreed with the vote. “Now,” Schiff tweeted, the Republican party is “the party of lies, with one lie bigger than the rest.”

Leading up to the vote, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) warned that ousting Cheney from the 3rd highest position in the party could lose the Republican party voters.

Cheney railed against Utah voters for booing Romney during the state GOP conference last week.

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RFK Jr. announces lifelong Democrat, advocate of left-leaning causes, CA native as running mate

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday that attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan will be his vice presidential running mate in the upcoming election. The Independent candidate announced his choice for the 38-year-old Oakland, California native by praising her insight into “how Big Tech uses AI to manipulate the public,” her athletic ability, and willingness to be a “partner” in a number of policy areas, including on securing the border.

Fox News writes that Shanahan is a philanthropist with a long history of donating to Democrat and left-leaning causes, including supporting President Biden in his 2020 election bid before switching to Kennedy when he launched his own run for the Democrat nomination last year.

She is the founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation, a private firm that describes its mission as focused on “new frontiers in reproductive longevity & equality, criminal justice reform and a healthy & livable planet.”

Fox News reports Shanahan initially dropped her support for Kennedy after he decided to run as an independent, but later got behind him again by giving $4 million to the super PAC that boosted his candidacy with a John F. Kennedy-themed campaign ad that ran during the Super Bowl in February.

Shanahan also previously donated to Democrat presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Pete Buttigieg during the 2020 presidential race, and threw more than $150,000 behind progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s 2020 election bid.

Shanahan, a life-long Democrat, told the crowd that she was leaving the party.

“The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of compassion. It is supposed to be the party of free speech, and most importantly, the party of the middle class and the American dream,” Shanahan said.

“While I know many Democrats still abide by those values…I do believe they’ve lost their way in their leadership,” she continued.

And she urged “disillusioned” Democrats and Republicans to support Kennedy’s independent White House bid.

 

 

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