Скачать или смотреть Removing 'Republican royalty' Liz Cheney from her position was 'brutal politics'

Liz Cheney was removed from her position in Congress because “she was running a different narrative” than the Republicans want to push, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman.

“What I think you’re seeing is an effort to consolidate the Republican Party (for) what’s going to be their strategy for those 2022 elections,” he told Sky News.

“The Republicans are going to be thinking of this base election, Democrat turnout is not going to be as high as it was when the presidency was at stake and the voice that are splitting the Republican Party at the moment need to be silenced.”

Mr Jackman said the Republicans were pushing the view former President Donald Trump was robbed at the 2020 election and Ms Cheney was saying President Trump was “perpetuating a great lie that was damaging to the US Constitution.”

“As brutal as the politics are, the silencing of the number three Republican in Congress and someone with the name Cheney – Republican Party royalty from the reddest of red states Wyoming – this is about getting their ducks in a row.”