Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., pushed back against fellow Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, Wednesday after the congressman defended Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the highest-ranking woman in the house, for her vote to impeach President Donald Trump, Fox News informed.
“With all due respect to Rep. Crenshaw, this is a minority view within the minority party,” Gaetz tweeted to Crenshaw.
Crenshaw said earlier that Cheney had a “hell of a lot more backbone than most” and called her a “principled leader.”
Cheney and nine other House Republicans voted along with Democrats to impeach Trump on Wednesday for “incitement of insurrection” after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the certification of President-elect Joe Biden‘s electoral college win over the president.
Cheney, the highest-ranking GOP House member to vote for impeachment, has faced calls from a handful of Republican colleagues for her to resign from her leadership position over the vote.
The Wyoming congresswoman, who wrote Tuesday that “There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” rebuffed the resignation calls.
“I’m not going anywhere,” she told a reporter. “This is a vote of conscience. It’s one where there are different views in our conference.”
Staffers for Gaetz and Crenshaw did not immediately respond to an email from Fox News.
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