Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Tuesday argued that Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is the wrong choice to fill Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) leadership position and lacks a conservative enough voting record to represent the House Republican Conference.
Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, pointed to Stefanik’s past votes against the 2017 tax cut law and in support of Democratic bills to end former President Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a border wall, keep the U.S. in the Paris climate pact, and ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Installing someone like Stefanik in GOP leadership, Roy argued, would undermine Republicans’ messaging against such policies heading into the 2022 midterm elections.
“We must avoid putting in charge Republicans who campaign as Republicans but then vote for and advance the Democrats’ agenda once sworn in – that is, that we do not make the same mistakes we did in 2017,” Roy wrote in a memo to his GOP colleagues.
“Therefore, with all due respect to my friend, Elise Stefanik, let us contemplate the message Republican leadership is about to send by rushing to coronate a spokesperson whose voting record embodies much of what led to the 2018 ass-kicking we received by Democrats,” Roy continued.
Roy opposed the efforts by some of his Freedom Caucus colleagues to challenge the presidential election results and voted against the Electoral College challenges on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
But Roy said that he will vote during a Wednesday House Republican Conference meeting to remove Cheney from her leadership position because “she forfeited her ability to be our spokesperson by pulling us into distraction.”
“From a position specifically designed to speak for all of us, she has been looking backwards while repeatedly and unhelpfully engaging in personal attacks and finger-wagging towards President Trump rather than leading the conference forward with a unifying message both on elections and more broadly,” Roy wrote.
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Republican says Stefanik not conservative enough to be GOP leader https://t.co/2QeVu1ZlMx pic.twitter.com/8MdfAWjSWl
— The Hill (@thehill) May 11, 2021
House GOP: "We need to move on from 2020 (and the bogus stolen election claims) and focus on winning in 2022. That's why Cheney must go."
Trump: "The 2020 election was stolen!
House GOP: <Silence>
Cheney: "No, it wasn't"
House GOP: "There she goes again! She can't move on!"— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) May 9, 2021
She’s a Trumpy and in Trupyworld, that should qualify her as a ” conservative” according to their definition of the term.
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